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030 August 2016 Monthly calendar - Fiesta roundup – Tomatina – Guadalest – Night Sky – Golden Harmony (Mike & Marie Joy) – A Rose by another name – Slavery today – Steps of Mauthaüsen – Spanish Cookery..

Blue wine? – Mallorca and Palma Salt – Tandem Jump – Think Before you get a Pet – 2017 Solidarity Calendar – Bookshelf (Shakespeare & Mary’s Meals) – Rotary Club Salt Towers – Whats On -

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This month is full of festivals and fiestas. Some of the main ones are held in Elche and Orihuela.

1st - 25th Aspe holds fiestas almost every day. On the 3rd there is a romería carrying the image of the Virgen de las Nieves which is returned again on the 14th . another main day is on the 5th with a procession.

Then in 1978 the Moors & Christians parades were added.

(See 10th) 1 - 8th Aug. Patronal fiestas in Pinoso.

2nd- 6th Patronal fiestas in Els Poblet.

2 - 6th Aug. Patronal fiestas in Xaló.

3 - 10th Patronal fiestas in Murla. (see 7th) 5 - 9th Moors & Christians in Elche.

Aspe fiestas On odd ending years fiestas in Hondón de las Nieves.

5 - 6th Main fiestas of Calpe.

6th Aug. Principal fiestas of Mutxamel.

7th Aug. Fiesta dels Fadrins in Murla.

7th Aug on the weekend nearest to this date a romería is held in Relleu.

On the first weekend of the month the Fiestas of the Virgen de la Paz are held in San Fulgencio. In La Marina urbanisation.

8th Aug. Fiestas of San Domingo held in Beniarbeig.

First weekend of the month youngsters of Penàguila celebrate the Fadrins fiesta with a romería.

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Beniardá has pàtronal fiestas until the following Monday or Tuesday.

Tárbena holds patronal fiestas Friday to Monday.

Alfafara holds patronal fiestas.

More patronal fiestas in Balones.

Famorca holds patronal fiestas.

First week Benidoleig has patronal fiestas in honour of Santa Barbara.

First or second Sunday Vall d Ébo has patronal fiestas.

9 - 15th Parcent holds fiestas in honour of San Lorenzo.

10th Aug. Weekend nearest to this date San Lorenzo fiestas held in Altea, Busto, Benimantell and Benillup.

10 - 13th Moors & Christians in Aspe.

10 - 18th Novelda celebrates San Roque.

11 - 15th Banyeres de Mariola fiestas in Cope district.

11 - 16th Patronal fiestas in honor of the Virgen del Rosario, San Isidro and San Roque held in El Verger.

12 - 15th Moors & Christians in Cocentaina.

Patronal fiestas in Benichembla.

Local fiesta in Altoza (Alacant).

12 - 16th Moors & Christian fiestas in Callosa de Segura.

12 - 17th Bigastro holds patronal fiestas of San Joaquín with election of the queen and her enntourage, a popular parade of “carriages·.

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The second week of August (including 15th) patronal fiestas at Ráfol de Almunia.

Second weekend beach fiestas of Albir.

Second Sunday patronal fiestas of La Vall d’Alcalà.

Patronal fiesta in Sagra.

In Xixona dance festival with dances dating from XVII century.

Summer festival in Benialí (Vall de Gallinera).

During the first two weeks Elche celebrates the Fiesta de los Pobladores.

Fiestas in Ondara in the Cristo district, include blessing of bread at Mass, procession and fireworks with a slice of coca cake for 2,000 people.

13th Aug. In Elche between 23.15 and 00.00 h., the Nit de l’Albà a spectacular firework display whose origins go back to XVII century.

13 - 16th Moors & Christians in Dénia.

Fiestas in Castalla.

14th Aug.

La Nit de l’Olla introduces the Moors & Christians fiestas in Benilloba.

14 - 18th Patronal fiesta in Guadalest.

Polop fiestas of Porrat de Sant Roc. La Nucía celebrates patronal fiestas.

Patronal fiestas in honour of the Virgen de la Cueva Santa in Beniarrés.

Principal fiestas of Castel de Castells.

Summer fiestas begin in Montforte del Cid. Weekend prior to 15th the fiesta of the Virgen de Africa is held in Senija.

14 - 22 Summer Fair in Orihuela.

14 - 15th Representation of the medieval Mystery Play in Elche.

15th Aug. La Torre de les Macanes has unique traditional fiestas.

Sax celebrates la Fiesta de la Virgen de la Asunción.

In Senija the Fiestas de la Mare de Dèu d’Agost are held.

Pilar de la Horadada have special celebrations.

Weekend after the 15th fiestas in Beniferri.

15 - 20th Main fiestas at Llíber.

18 - 23rd Patronal fiestas in Benasau.

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20th Aug.

Fiestas in honour of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Benimaurell (Vall de Laguart) The weekend nearest to this date are the fiestas in Forna.

20 - 21 Alcoy holds fiestas of La Virgen de los Lirios.

21st - 26th Aug. Moors & Christians in El Camp de Mirra 22nd Aug. Summer fiestas of Alacant.

Many towns have Moors & Christian festivities in August and September.

Third weekend of August Xixona holds 3-day fiestas with Moors & Christians.

Summer festival begins in Patró (Vall de Gallinera).

Between the 3rd and 4th Saturdays of the month the Patronal fiestas in Bolulla.

The third week sees the patronal celebrations in Benimasot.

23 - 26th Moors & Christians march in the José Antonio district of Alacant.

24 - 26th Aug. Patronal fiestas in Almudaina.

24th August Xixona holds the fiesta of El Porrt de la Candelaria.

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30th Aug. - 8th September Virgen de Loreto fiestas at Xàbia.

31st Aug. Jávea fiestas of the Virgen de los Angeles.

31st Aug. Start of Castalla Moors & Christian fiestas with the Nit de l’Olla.

31st Aug. Montforte del Cid holds the Festival of San Ramón.

Festival of the Virgen de los Angeles in the monastery of los Jerónimos in Xàbia.

Second last weekend of the month Les Danses fiesta of Castalla.

Last weekend of month patronal fiestas in Benifato, Alcoleja and Facheca.

San Miguel fiestas in Alcalí.

Major fiestas in Benimeli.

Summer fiestas in Benissili (Vall de Gallinera) Patronal fiestas of San Roque in Beniarbeig.

Last weekend of the month Monòvar holds fiestas of Santa Bárbara.

Hondón de los Frailes have fiestas.

Patronal fiestas in Formentera del Segura.

Every year August is one of the most packed months, not only for fiestas but for exhibitions, expositions, fairs, beauty queens etc. etc. There are over 400 festivals held in the Valencia area during this month. The 15th August is a national feastday and bank holiday, and nearly every town has its own celebrations; in Madrid the day is celebrated as the feast of the Virgen de la Paloma with traditional Madrid dress for men and women the rule of the day and can be seen in Torrevieja as it is celebrated by Madrid residents.

Please contact tourist offices for up-dates on fiestas as programmes are not normally issued until the days prior to any event.

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Tomato Bashers of Buñol

Many visitors from abroad, especially Australia and New Zealand, visit the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona in July, then stay on to see other parts of Spain and end up at the small town of Buñol for the tomato festival held on the last Wednesday in August – 31st - La Tomatina.

Two years ago the Buñol town hall decided to limit the number of people so are charging a 10 euros entrance for 17,000 people. So it’s a buy in advance through the official outlet which went on sale last month.

From 10.45 on this Wednesday morning thousands of people line the streets of Buñol, to chuck 170,000 kilos of tomatoes in the annual celebration of the Tomatina.

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All the ammunition comes from Cetrimed, a fruit and vegetable producer based in La Llosa, in neighbouring Castellón province, which has been supplying the festival for the past decade. For many people this is wasteful, so why use these tomatoes? Excess tomatoes that are not sold are kept for two weeks in a refrigeration room. Normally these are tomatoes that do not come up to the standards of size and ripeness. Any that are too small or soft end up in the six truckloads sent to the Tomatina. They are really perfectly all right for consumption, but just don’t make the grade. So now all the tomatoes that would have normally been thrown away are now thrown in this red day festival.

Visitors form nearly 100 countries buy up the tickets in advance. Along with the tomato bashing are two other events one dedicated to gastronomy and the other to a Sound Festival. There is actually an official song “Todo del mismo color” by Malsujeto (2008).

Supposedly the tomato festival began in 1945 when a fight between two youngsters ended in a huge battle in the town’s main square, is now so famous around the world. aormi@icloud.com

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Guadalest - the Jewel on the crown of the Mediterranean

by Dave Stewart

After Madrid this tiny town is the most visited place in Spain, set amid mountains with access by winding roads that can accommodate coaches. It has in common with Madrid the attraction of a solar powered boat sailing: the boat in Madrid is in the Retiro de Madrid park and this one in the large reservoir of Guadalest. For five euros passengers have a three-quarter trip around the lake by

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an environmental friendly solar boat that is one of three owned by Sea Trawlers of Mallorca where the third boat operates in Palma. www.seacleaner.com Guadalest: entrance to the village is free, but there is a charge for the car park.

The village is packed with craft and souvenir shops, independent museums, ancient buildings and restaurants as well as offering breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains.

Guadalest has a couple of small museums and wonderful cascades of water nearby.

It is a fortress town, which in recent years was actually bought over by the inhabitants who have converted it into the jewel of the Costa Blanca. Guadalest is 73 kilometres from Alicante and 595 metres above sea level. From a mountain village it has become a tourist trap attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year and is listed as a ‘Monument of Historical and Artistic Value' in 1974.

There is a tortuous road leading up to this quaint mountain fortress where access is gained through an easily defended tunnel. The local church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption with its painted white rocks embedded into the mountainside. This was a secluded natural area where the small population sought shelter from invading armies. The cemetery is actually a Way of the Cross and from there the visitor has wonderful views over the countryside and mountains. Emblematic buildings include the Casa Consistorial and the lovely palace of the Marquis of Orduña.

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magnificent views of the apparently perilously perched orchards. The Guadalest River flows through the valley from its source at Confrides.

The origins of the castle are remote, but in the time of Jaime I came under the villa (town) of Vidal de Sarriรก. In 1276 Amaldo de Matarรณ was named as the mayor of Guadalest. The small town has a long history of being handed from noble to noble until the expulsion of the Moriscos when it almost became abandoned. An earthquake in 1644 partially destroyed the houses and more damage was caused in the War of Succession when it was blown up by a mine to destroy the enemy sheltering inside.

The principal fiestas are held on 15th to 17th August in honour of the Assumption, San Gregory and San Roque when traditional dishes included conejo al ali oli (rabbit with garlic mayonnaise), olleta (a type of stew) and pimientos rellenos (stuffed peppers).

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Guadalest Miniture Museum

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Among must-see sights are the Church of the Assumption (built 740), there are eight museums including the museum of miniatures, a Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers with over 20,000 examples, ethnological museum, museum of torture instruments and the exhibition of old wooden toys.

It is a picturesque place with nearby cascades and any tourist must take his/her camera for breathtaking photos of this mountain top refuge.

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While in the area visitors should also visit the Algar Waterfalls that are only 15 km from Benidorm and 3 km from the center of Callosa d'en Sarrià, direction Bolulla. Here you can find a natural area with a high degree of conservation of the ecological richness and also tourist services and environmental education.

This area has been declared a Wetland protected by the Valencian Government.

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It is a real theme park about the importance of Water as an environmental resource, economic and cultural. The visit is a route through a circuit of 1.5 km in length along, where you can walk through the bed of the river Algar ("cave " in Arabic), see the spectacular waterfalls and the numerous sources springs that erupt from the rock, the "tolls" (pools of water) where you can take refreshing swims in crystal clear waters, known before as "source of health", the old dam, the imposing century-old canal and ditches still in use.

The services are oriented to facilitate and enrich the visit with environmental education resources such as: Tourist Office, parking areas, toilets, first aid, Arboretum, collecting herbs and tour information on níspero, souvenir shop, the area picnic and the camping.

To this must be added the Dino Park Algar, and the 5 restaurants nearby the Waterfalls, where you can enjoy the typical gastronomy of the area.

DinoPark Algar is a unique, fun and educational park located in the fantastic setting of the botanical garden Cactus d'Algar.

An area of 6 acres on which are static models and robotic dinosaurs in a natural setting.

The park is complemented by a 3D cinema, children's attractions and a nature trail and is great for kids.

DinoPark Algar is only part of the network of educational and entertainment parks, DinoPark Europe, based in the Czech Republic (www.dinopark.eu).

Dino Park Algar is the eighth DinoPark built by the Czech company WEST MEDIA. DinoPark Algar has 30 scenes static and robotic life-sized dinosaurs.

The scenes are accompanied by natural decorations, sound system and educational signs.

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The Fort Pathway This pathway links the Algar Waterfalls to the Fort of Bèrnia. Along the way, you will find some old plots, a cave which used to be a rest area and a cattle corral.

You will also find some explanatory panels in which the purposes of each place are displayed.

Don’t forget your camera as you will be able to enjoy a wonderful view of the coastline, from Calpe to Alicante, as well as the view of the Aitana and Xortà mountains along the way. On clear days, Ibiza island can be seen from the Fort of Bèrnia.

The indigenous flora consist mainly of kermes oaks, palmettos, pine trees, esparto grass, thorny brooms, etc.

The Fort of Bèrnia.

The Fort of Bèrnia, was built in 1562 by the royal engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli. It was a magnificent and clear exponent of the military architecture in the Renaissance epoch. King Philip II of Spain ordered its construction to face the Ottoman incursions on the coast. In 1612, because of its inefficiency and because it was far from the coast, it was demolished by order of Philip III of Spain.

At the Fort you can still see the arches, the fosse, the bastion, the well and the wall remains. The wall measured 110 meters long and 110 meters wide.

It has been considered as a Property of Cultural Interest since 1997.

The Italian military engineer Antonelli designed and built a chain of military fortifications on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula for Spain during the second half of the sixteenth century.

In 1568, King Philip II of Spain had given a mandate to the noble Vespasian Gonzaga, to carry out a plan of defense of the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

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He had already done similar work in the Kingdom of Sicily in 1547 and 1552. The nobleman was accompanied by an expert, Antonelli, responsible for the construction of the fortifications of port city of Cartagena, the coast of the Kingdom of Valencia and the African ports of Oran and Mazalquivir.

Within this project of fortification of the coast of Spain and Africa, was built a series of towers along the coast, the coast of the Kingdom of Murcia and Valencia, and was undertaken the reconstruction of the Castle of Santa Barbara overlooking Alicante (Spain) in 1562, the construction of the original Benidorm Palace and the Tower of Santa Faz in Alicante in 1575 and the reservoir of Tibi (1580), walls were built to protect Peñíscola. He was also the one who oversaw the construction of the towers of Cap Cervera, Torre Vigia, Cabo de Roig, Torre Oradada and Guardamar castle. From Rosas in Cataluña to Gibraltar there were around 250 towers built. For more information see Torrevieja Cameos book.

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August Night Sky

There are two occasions in August to watch spectacular natural sky events.

Normally this month witnesses an annual sky show, which is known in Spain as the Tears of San Lorenzo as it occurs around this saint’s feast day. For some, the Feast of San Lorenzo brings science and religion together rather beautifully. On the 10th August Italians, particularly the ones named Lorenzo, celebrate the martyrdom of San Lorenzo. It is around this time that the sky offers a particularly fantastic meteor shower, visible from the northern hemisphere. The Perseid Meteor Shower has been aptly referred to as the tears of San Lorenzo.

Most towns will have astronomers and aficionados gathering to witness this spectacular natural firework display. Seaside towns will have groups on the seafront with their telescopes and at La Mata park usually some sky watchers gather there, away from any bright lights.

Five planets are aligning across the dawn sky over the next month, in a rare treat for skywatchers. As August rolls around, it will soon be time for the yearly show of the Perseid meteor shower. And this year the show could be even better than usual, maybe even spectacular as it coincides with the Delta meteor shower.

The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter will be simultaneously visible to the naked eye for the first time in more than a decade. With the Juno spaceport shutting round Jupiter, this is of particular interest.

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The display is made possible by the unusual alignment of the five planets along what's known as the ecliptic plane of their orbits. In practice, this means the planets lie near the plane of Earth's orbit, projecting as a line.

There will be an opportunity to view the planets in alignment from 13 August to 19 August.

At that time, the spectacle will take place around dusk, and skywatchers in the southern hemisphere will be best placed to view it.

The last occasion when the planets were visible before dawn in this way was late December 2004 to early January 2005, when their order in the sky briefly matched their relative order outward from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

San Lorenzo Tears August 12, 2016 before dawn: The Perseid meteor shower is perhaps the most beloved meteor shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere.

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appear in all parts of the sky. They are typically fast and bright meteors.

They frequently leave persistent trains. The Perseids combine with the Delta Aquarid shower to produce a dazzling display of shooting stars on what are, for us in the N. Hemisphere, warm summer nights. In 2016, as always, the Perseid meteors will be building to a peak from early August until the peak nights; afterwards, they drop off fairly rapidly.

In ancient Greek star lore, Perseus is the son of the god Zeus and the mortal Danae. It is said that the Perseid shower commemorates the time when Zeus visited Danae, the mother of Perseus, in a shower of gold.

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50 GOLDEN YEARS TOGETHER professional variety stars

mike and marie joy davis

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Ben Jenkins' Welsh Discoveries show was one of several early enterprises to encourage youngsters to reach for the stars. Marie Joy is the little girl at the top of the steps. Below an early entertainer at Butlins Holiday Camps.

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When you talk about Marie Joy and Mike Davis its the same as saying peaches and cream, both go together so well.

Blue-eyed and blonde, Marie Joy was born into the theatre, her father having also been a wellknown entertainer, with a tap dance routine reminiscent of Fred Astaire. Hailing from the Welsh capital, Cardiff, she started her dancing career at the tender age of three years! She appeared in Ben Jenkins' Welsh Discoveries shows and before she was 12 years old, she was singing and dancing professionally in working men’s clubs in the London area, as well as theatres throughout the United Kingdom.

It was not all singing and dancing, which is hard enough, because there were always rehearsals, not to mention keeping up school studies Frank Randall became famous on vaudeville, films and television, even in the comic Film Fun wherever they happen to be performing. At one point when performing in Blackpool Marie Joy shared her digs and classes with Petula Clarke and Julie Andrews who were also child stars, later becoming famous in their own ways.

Later, she worked alongside the famous North Country comedian, Frank Randall, touring with him in the revue, “Randall’s Scandals”, which in the 1950’s featured Roy Castle. Marie Joy worked during four years in the resident revue company at Butlin’s Holiday Camps and was always in great demand during the pantomime season, performing as leading lady/boy in all the favorites stories. She was billed as “Britain’s Betty Hutton”. So summertime was in the holiday hotspots of England and wintertime dedicated to clubs and pantomimes

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Stanley Mathews was one of her best friends as he performed with Harry Johnson a little football spot, “Football Artistry” in the Blackpool theatre where Marie Joy was appearing during the summer season in Holiday Showboat. Stanley is, of course, a football legend, the “wizard of the dribble” and Harry was captain of Blackpool FC. She remembers that during the war years, working in London, the troupe were bussed almost every evening from the London city centre theatres after shows to the quieter countryside as bombs rained on the capital.

Marie Joy met Mike Davies, then a young professional singer and compere, in 1966 at Cleopatra's Club in Cardiff. She was a bit put out when Mike told her she had to do the opening act, not always the very best spot in variety shows, so argued with him as he explained about another act that moved around the audience. She argued that he had to go and tell the manager that she was not appearing in the opening spot. So poor Mike set off to see the man with the reputation of a fiery temper, but turned round and said to aormi@icloud.com

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her, "I tell you what, you go and tell him." So that was that and she did do the opening numbers and that was beginning of a new relationship on and off stage.

Mike is a crooner and his performance included a tribute style act to Frankie Vaughan; on one occasion he was faced with the daunting prospect of the man himself appearing on stage at the same theatre for a week. Mike was a bit apprehensive when Frankie approached and said, "I hear you do a lookalike act of me and you're very good at it. Let's see how it goes."

So Mike put on his straw hat, clutched his cane and said, "Follow me" and both of them did the famous "Give Me the Moonlight," routine to great applause and appreciation on the part of the audience and Frankie Vaughan. Mike's father had immigrated to Liverpool from Lithuania with an unpronounceable name, so the clerk at the induction centre ran down a list and said, "Ok Davis you are from now on."

On another occasion Dorothy Squires was top of the bill and it was pouring down and there was a hole, not just a leak, in the roof above the stage. Dorothy asked Mike if he would help out, so he dutifully stood a little behind her for 45 minutes while she performed, holding an umbrella. That's Showbiz, folks.

After a brief and ‘whirlwind’ romance, that took all of six weeks; actually six days as they only met on Mike's free days, they married in August of that very same year at Lewisham Registry and the devoted couple have spent their lives together ever since.

Marie Joy maintains that it was really her mother who fell in love with Mike..and as we know, every mother wants the best for their daughter.

Not only did Marie & Mike team up on a personal level, but they also teamed up professionally as a very popular double act, constantly in demand throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and working extensively in ‘club land’, often sharing the stage with some of Britain best known names in the entertainment industry.

Within just three short years together, the amiable duo were voted by their peers as the ‘Number one double act’ and were selected to participate in two Blackpool and two South Yorkshire command performances. Their popularity has never waned. One of their popular comedy routines was based on "Those Little Green Apples" and their signature tune was "The Two of Us".

Mike tinkles the keys of a keyboard and has composed several songs. One of those dedicated to Torrevieja, was much later included in most shows in Torrevieja. aormi@icloud.com

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Torreviejacauses, Outlook including animal welfare Nº 30 - August 2016 Raising funds for so many different

Mari Joy and Mike ‘retired’ to Torrevieja’s Mediterranean sunshine around twenty five years ago to the dream of a castle in Spain, but soon opted for a flat in the town centre close to all the amenities with lovely Spanish neighbours around. With a wealth of talent and experience, the couple felt that they still had something to offer and made use of their entertaining skills for the benefit of local, Torrevejense charities. Around this time, the local handicapped children’s charity, APANEE, was in the process of being formed and this particular worthy cause was able to become well established and provide services for disabled children thanks to the support of Marie Joy and Mike. They devised and orchestrated each show as a variety concert with song and dance, a splash of comedy, especially playing on the fact of Marie Joy's Welsh ancestry. Most years a St. David’s show was organized on 1st March, again for charity, as a nod in the direction of the lady’s ancestry.

Both being animal lovers, it was inevitable also that local animal welfare charity ‘S.A.T.’ should benefit, not only from their professional talents and fund raising abilities, but as founding members/volunteers at the local animal sanctuary, which they still do, and over time adopted three stray dogs, their last being the Yorkie “Monty”. In UK they had another Yorkie and at one venue appeared with it at the stage door where they appeared as top of the bill. The doorman refused them entry because of the dog so they walked off and phoned their agent explaining the circumstances and were immediately booked that night at another venue. So one club’s loss was another club’s gain.

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One of their suggestions in Torrevieja was an annual charity gala, held over several years in the balmy evenings of July in the open air ‘Eras de la Sal’ theatre. An annual production that raised millions of pesetas and then tens of thousands of Euros for several deserving causes such as the ‘A.E.C.C.’ (cancer) charity. It is a pity that this is no longer held as it brought together a lot of first class professional and amateur stars. Numerous other local charities in and around Torrevieja have also been on the receiving end of Marie and Mike’s selfless solidarity. Over their many years working for charity they have raised around quarter of million euros.

At one time they had their own show group of youngsters who could dance and sing, with one memorable sketch combining movements to a song which meant that if any one of them stumbled then the whole lot would end up battering each other, which never happened as they were all too well rehearsed. Among their many young friends were the youngsters of the Torrevieja’s “Orquesta Cecilio Gallego” who continue to play a wide range of music, typical Mediterranean sounds of the guitar, mandolin and lute.

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Pride of Spain Awards, only one of many tributes to this fantastic couple.

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They have dozens of newspaper cuttings with show reviews such as when at Hoe Theatre in Plymouth with the Bouquet Summer Show and called a “Cockney Opera” makes colorful drama headlines. It says that “Marie Joy thrills the audience with her tremendous personality, and one is left exhausted by her zest and exuberance.” One of the reasons they were successful as a team was the variety of songs they performed, which the audience all knew, the quiet comedy rapport between them that has been described as all good clean fun. When asked about her costumes she said that her mother made most of them and later she did them herself. Only with shows like pantomimes were costumes ever supplied.

Their very last farewell concert was on 24th October 2012, and as always, aimed at raising funds for local charity. Among the audience was a man who still had great memories of his family holiday in Butlins many years ago in 1960 and still remembered Marie Joy performing. He told a story of how he loved one of the songs she sang at Butlins and a couple of days later met her in the grounds and asked her to sing it again that evening. She patiently told him that the show was a two week review with each day a different show routine, so he would have to wait two weeks for it to come around again. He thoroughly enjoyed the last performance and wrote about it in The Call Boy magazine that deals with showbiz.

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From these pages we would like to wish them both all the best and hope they continue to love life in Torrevieja.

Here’s to a lovely couple who have done so much in their time entertaining and helping so many other people.

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Laughter is a great medicine in any marriage or partnership

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Beach celebration with friends and below with beloved Monty

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Taaraa, love. Take care!

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A Rose by another name - SLAVERY

by Pat Hynd

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas. Some countries have a country-wide floral emblem; others in addition have symbols representing subdivisions. Different processes have been used to adopt these symbols – some are conferred by government bodies, whereas others are the result of informal public polls. The term floral emblem, which refers to flowers specifically, is primarily used in Australia and Canada. In the United States, the term state flower is more often used.

In July we dealt with Spain’s Carnation considered to be the national flower of Spain. Essentially it is associated with Spanish folklore, especially in southern Spain, or Andalusia.

But in England we tend to use the rose as a symbol for many things, places and even beliefs. During the May Chelsea Flower Show yet another rose was presented to the public in a small garden dedicated to modern slavery. It has been created by Dickson Nurseries of County Down especially for designer Juliet Sargeant‘s Chelsea debut garden, the Modern Slavery Garden. It is a serious message: in every part of Britain today, people are being kept in captivity and forced to work. Slavery still exists today and while the passing into law of the Modern Slavery Act last year was a big step forward, there is much more work to be done. he garden, which is sponsored by some of Britain’s leading anti-slavery

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Modern Slavery goes on behind closed doors near to you

charities, including A21, is rich with metaphors: William Wilberforce dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery while standing beneath an oak tree and oak saplings, brought on by members of the Salvation Army, have been chosen for Juliet’s garden to represent the signs of hope provided by 21st-century campaigners. The railings, while beautiful seen from outside, are like prison bars to anyone trapped in the houses behind them, and the charcoal mulch points to the hidden reality and the darkness of those trapped in slavery in Britain today.

The garden's award-winning designer, Juliet Sargeant, told us, "I wanted to emphasize the fact that modern slavery is a crime that is hidden, whereas in old slavery it was acceptable for one person to own another person. These days it is illegal, so it is a hidden crime behind closed doors."

"And I thought the easiest way to show that was simply to have some doors in the garden," she explained. "So there are front doors, typical English front doors, standing upright in the garden and they are brightly colored with lovely planting around the front of them."

"But then behind those doors in the center of the garden it represents the captive space of modern slaves, so it is dark and there is no plant life," she said.

"Whether people are working in brothels or nail bars, cannabis farms, agricultural, domestic, all these forms of slavery are largely hidden,” Galvin explained in a CBN news report.

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Behind the doors and railings in the gloomy centre of the garden grows an oak tree, a reference to the tree under which William Wilberforce dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery. He would have been saddened to know there are now more slaves in the world than there were in 1833 when his original bill was passed.

In terms of plants, Juliet is using pretty fennel, verbascum, lupins, peonies, anthriscus, geum and heuchera, in uplifting shades of orange, apricot and yellow, all depicting the joy that freedom brings.

The idea came from Julia Sargeant and abolitionists Mirabelle Galvin and Charlie Hart, who are passionate to let the public know about the 27 million people worldwide kept in captivity and forced to work. Their garden looks forward to the day when all are free, and features brightly painted front doors, optimistic pathways and colourful planting that would do well in anyone’s front garden in an average street.

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Mirabelle and Juliet’s modern slavery garden was awarded a gold medal.

A “Modern Slavery Rose” has been launched and planted at the Chelsea Physic Garden, and Juliet’s garden will go on tour to Chichester, Hull (2017 City of Culture and Wilberforce’s constituency) and finally to Wiston Estate in West Sussex.

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WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY?

SLAVERY GENERATES US $150 BILLION IN ILLEGAL PROFITS PER YEAR For more information see - https://www.walkfree.org/modern-slavery-facts/

WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY? Modern slavery is defined as when one person possesses or controls another person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of their individual liberty, with the intention of exploiting that person through their use, profit, transfer or disposal.

In a separate historical article we look at forced labour in one of the Nazi Camps, but should remember that in Spain Franco also operated forced “labour Camps” that amounted to slavery yet thanks to some of these projects we can enjoy hydraulic dams and electricity among other benefits.

The facts are quite startling as International Labour Organisation (ILO) experts say that over 4.5 million people are slaves of some sort or another.

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68% are subject to forced labour and nearly one in three is a child, over half of victims are women and girls as young as five years of age.

Slavery is supposedly illegal in almost every nation in the world, but it still generates an estimated 150 billion dollars in illegal profits each year.

Among other abuses, these children are sexually exploited, forced to work, and even made to participate in armed conflict.

Now look at your child or grandchild: would you not want to prevent anything like this happening to them?

Domestic slavery affects those who work within the home environment as opposed to a commercial setting. Estimates suggest that there are at least 64.5 million domestic workers worldwide, and over 15% of them are children. Whilst many employers respect domestic workers, sadly others force them to work long hours, lock them in homes, and show only violence.

FORCED MARRIAGE Every year forced marriage sentences millions of people, particularly women and girls, to a life in slavery. It has become a problem in UK and in Spain, and Europe generally, where there as been a lot of immigration of people who have different beliefs than those customary held in the west.

We can help ensure that people at risk and their families know that forced marriage happens, forced marriage is illegal and activists around the world are taking a stand to end the practice Sexual exloitation Though illegal in every country, girls, boys, women and men are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation around the world. You can help put an end to this horrendous crime by taking action now.forever.

Several organisations do work for the freedom of slaves. In the past John Brown in America became famous for his fight to free black slaves and in aormi@icloud.com

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the Catholic Church there is a religious order that for centuries has tried to free slaves, often paying a ransom for them, including the inhabitants of Tabarca Island. (see Torrevieja Cameos book) Our new British Prime Minister, Teresa May, is well aware of the problems with modern slavery as she was involved in the enterprise of Pope Francis, the Santa Maria Group that focuses on modern slavery, particularly domestic, and has set up refuge homes for those who have escaped and require support.

Today there are several organisations that try to prevent human trafficking or redeeming slaves and trying to reinsert them back into a normal life.

One of these is Walk Free.

WalkFree.org has grown to a global community of over 8 million people who have driven 31 campaigns and held over 200 offline events. Partnerships have been formed with 50 likeminded organisations and 7,000 Freedom Leaders have been inspired to hold their own events, drive campaign petitions and provide their expertise to the global community. The Walk Free Movement works towards achieving three core objectives: 1. Enforcement of policies, laws and programmes that ensures the safety and empowerment of victims and persons at risk, and deters slavery 2. Modern slavery is socially unacceptable in every country in the world 3. No business provides goods or services affected by modern slavery.

Working with partners, the Movement’s actions have led to intergovernmental institutions, at least 11 governments, and 8 businesses agreeing to implement a change asked for in the WalkFree campaigns.

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Well over 2 million people have joined the Movement by taking action on one of the campaigns. The organisation works through email on campaigns and updates globally, and with actions specific to key focus countries.

We have all seen the girls working the roundabouts and may think, “what a way to make a living,� but think again as many of them are forced by aggressive pimps and organised gangs to do so. In Spain there are 8,400 people who live in modern slavery. A good proportion of these prostitutes in Spain are women who have been kidnapped, raped and imprisoned by brutal mafia-style groups who threaten them and their families. Fortunately attitudes are changing and now these girls are seen as victims and the law is moving more towards arresting chulos (pimps) and fining those who use their aormi@icloud.com

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services. For professional prostitutes this is a problem as police harassment of punters affects their work. In Spain 1.5 million men pay daily to have sex with women prostitutes. So you can see it is Big Business and not easy to control or wipe out.

In case of the Spanish modern slavery often requires the utilization of deception or abuse of an individual’s situation or need and, in the case of the irregular foreigners are in a situation of major vulnerability. The situations of labour exploitation, with or without it benefits, they can be seen in any sector, but stand out in the first place in domestic service, the construction industry and the hotel and catering business.

We should remember that the Spanish Penal Code typifies the crimes against the rights of the workers. Concretely, worthy of mention the articles 311 and 312.2, though the coherence between both has deteriorated, especially, after the Organic Law 7/2012, and the juridical technology is not the desirable one, because mixed up are the situations of Spanish and foreigners in administrative irregular situation, there are terminological incoherences and unnecessary reiterations.

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Facebook followers are spread throughout the world reflecting the WalkFree global movement. Through Facebook, actions with partners regularly reach hundreds of thousands of supporters in India, Indonesia, Philippines, the UK and USA with over 10,000 followers in a further 40 countries. The organisation also uses Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

With the achievement of its initial mission to mobilise a global community, WalkFree.org is now moving onto its next challenge. In 2016, leadership was handed over to U.S.-based Audacity Factory, an accelerator and collaborative focused on ending modern slavery. Through initiatives like EndCrowd, a platform to leverage crowdfunding to promote anti-slavery campaigns, Audacity Factory has successfully partnered with some of the world’s top anti-slavery organizations.

If you are interested in partnering with this association, please email info@walkfree.org.

Some associations that work to free modern slaves and guarantee better working conditions are:A World At School - Abolition Scotland - Adaleh -Amnesty International Anti Trafficking Monitoring Group - Anti-Slavery International - Arab Human Rights Academy - ATEST - Burma Campaign UK - Care - Challenging Heights - Child Aid Organisation Kenya - Coalition of Immokalee Workers - Congo Calling - Cotton Campaign - CPT – Comissão Pastoral da Terra - ECPAT UK ELA – Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género - Enough Project Finnwatch - Frontline Defenders - Global March Against Child Labour Global Witness - HAART Kenya - Harry Potter Alliance - Human Rights Watch - ILRF - International Domestic Workers Federation -ITUC – International Trade Union Confederation - Justice for Domestic Workers - Kalayaan Migrant Care - Not For Sale- Project Futures - Rainforest Action Network Reporter Brasil - Rotarian Action Group Against Child Slavery - SBMI – Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia - Shakti Vahini - Slave Free Seas - STOP THE TRAFFIK - SumOfUs - The Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) - The Freedom Partnership – Salvation Army Australia - The Walk Free Movement TUC - Uniting Church in Australia -UNPO

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Spanish refugees in France end in Mauthaüsen

History in Black and White by Andy Ormiston

The Steps of Mauthaüsen

Slavery has always been around us in one way or another. It didn't die out with the 1833 abolition of slavery act. The 20th century was rife with slavery. The Nazi Socialist program was successful because they had slaves, first in labour camps then those in concentration camps as the second war got into its full operation. The success of Franco’s post civil war reconstruction program was largely down to what amounted to slave labour.

Among the Republican refugees fleeing the wrath of the Spanish Nationalists at the end of the Civil War in 1939 was poet and writer Antonio Machado who has a street dedicated to his memory in Torrevieja.

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the fi r s t F re n c h concentration camp built to deal with them was at Argelés sur mer, Colliure where Antonio Machado died and where a plaque commemorates his life and death in this French town.

Some other Republicans managed to blend into the French lifestyle and when the Germans occupied the country they involved themselves in the French Tomb of Antonio Machado and his mother, Ana Ruiz, Resistance movement. But in the Colliure cemetery in France often with the collusion of French gendarmes, the Germans rounded up tens of thousands of Spaniards in France and sent them to the slave labour camps of Buchenwald and Mauthaüsen.

It is estimated that more than 6.500 Spanish prisoners died in Mauthaüsen, near Linz in Austria, used as slave labour for the nearby quarry that had 186 steps going down to it. Men in striped pajama uniforms, with a blue triangle denoting their Spanish nationality, had to carry large 130 lbs. stones up these steps and often were ordered to carry them back down again. The top of the dreaded staircase was nicknamed “the parachute jump” by the SS guards, because often prisoners were lined up on the cliff edge and pushed down to their deaths in the quarry.

Designed as only one camp it expanded in 1940 and apart from the four main sub-camps at Mauthaüsen and Gusen there were more than 50 subordinate camps and was categorised as a Grade III camp, which made them the toughest camps in Nazi Germany. The war memorial here has imitation steps as a backdrop to a wretched figure of a man.

35-year-old José Parades Úbeda from Torrevieja was one of those thousands who died in this Nazi concentration camp at Mathaüsen on 14th November 1941. Another 18-year-old prisoner from Torrevieja managed to survive the horrors of Mathaüsen. There was another who fled Spain and into France, but was arrested and sent first to one concentration camp, only to escape. Then he was arrested and sent to another German concentration camp, to escape a second time, and this led to him being sent to Mauthaüsen. He was among those who survived the ardour of imprisonment and lived in France where he served as mayor of aormi@icloud.com

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a small French town for forty years. The memorial plaque on the former camp wall, honouring the sacrifices of those who died, states that 7,000 prisoners died there. There is a list of almost 160 different methods of killing prisoners at Mauthaüsen. Many of these died in sealed prison vans when the exhaust pipe was fed back into the van so that the already weak men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. They had been told that they would be liberated before boarding the vans.

186 Steps of Mauthaüsan concentration camp Others were taken to the beautiful castle 30 kilometres away where a special gas chamber had been installed and told they were to be deloused, but ended their final agonised moments gasping for breath. Tortures included close confinement, deliberate starvation resulting in death within twelve days, freezing showers where over 3,000 prisoner died of hypothermia, flagellations, forced blood donations for soldiers at the front line, medical experiments, hangings and indiscriminate shootings.

As with many other concentration camps the main thrust was to provide labour for the war effort that was supported by many well established companies that today we use daily.

The quarry at Mauthaüsen was a private enterprise by the DEST Company (under the SS), which also had a mother company in Switzerland.

The quarry was famous for the granite stones that were used on the streets of Vienna, but the plan to use slave labour was partially so that the huge grandiose building projects of Albert Speers could be carried out with the stone from this quarry. Finance came from private sources, but also from the so-called Reinhardt Fund that was made up from the property stolen from prisoners and a lot of gold was sent to Switzerland, taken from the inmates.

Unwittingly the German Red Cross also “donated” large funds to this enterprise as the SS in charge was also President of the Red Cross in Germany and funnelled funds to SS tasks. At aormi@icloud.com

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Spanish Republican prisoners draped a wecome over the infamous Nazi eagle image above the gates to the American soldiers

one stage in 1942 slave labour was used here for building vehicles and V2 rockets and a huge underground complex was built to avoid the air strikes of the Allies. One of the final aims of these bunkers was that, should the need arise, the prisoners would be herded into them and the entrances blown up thus burying the evidence. The main manner of death of these prisoners was to work them to death until they dropped from exhaustion brought on by near starvation rations.

Ironically the Germans at Mauthaüsen ordered the prisoners to play football between teams of different nationalities, more as a diversion for themselves rather than for the benefit of the prisoners. In reality this actually played against the Germans as copies of photographs taken by the Germans of some of their atrocities were tossed over the fence by a communist prisoner Jacinto Cortés to a very brave woman, Anna Pointer, who picked up the sealed packets and kept them hidden until the end of the war. One of the prisoners was Barcelona photographer Francisco Boix Francisco Boix, who was put to work by the Germans in the developing of photographs in the Mauthaüsen laboratories. Bravely, together with former Republicans, aormi@icloud.com

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including Antonio Garcia, he managed to steal over 2.000 photographs, including negatives, which Boix later used in evidence at the Nuremberg trials against Nazi officials and led to the execution of many former officers and guards at MauthaĂźsen and Dachau. The Nuremberg trials were the first international courts that tried people for crimes against humanity and led to the introduction of the present courts at the Hague that have condemned several despots for similar crimes. Over 100,000 Nazis were sentenced to prison sentences, although very few, apart from Hess, really served their full sentence. Part of the reason for this was that the Allied partition of Germany led to the Soviets domination of Eastern Germany and an obvious threat to the West, therefore there was a need for experienced men to form a new army and intelligence service. German scientists and doctors who had experimented on prisoners, even if it meant their death, were also recruited by the Americans, Russians and other Allies and in return for their knowledge and services given immunity against prosecution for their war crimes against humanity.

A Nazi law of 31st July 1944 allowed "terrorists and their helpers" to be shot on sight without any legal process: it was called the "Niedermachungsbefhel" to shoot in cold blood, and used on many individuals and groups.When the American troops entered the MauthaĂźsen camp on 5th May 1945 they found that Spanish Republican flags had replaced the former Nazi swastikas. An American soldier wounded the SS commandant of the camp, Colonel Franz Ziereis, when he tried to escape wearing civilian clothing. There is an official version of his

Colonel Franz Ziereis, wounded and interrogated

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capture which conflicts with that of Spanish survivors. The official version is that he was captured by American soldiers after a bungled suicide attempt and interviewed by Francisco Boix and a Czech, Hans Marsalek, in which statement he claimed that he was not responsible and only obeying orders of Pohl, Himmler and Hitler. Marsalek later wrote up this account from memory six months later. The Spanish version is that that he was caught trying to commit suicide on the evening of 23rd May, was detained by Chief Warrant Officer Walter S. Kobus (USA Army) and three other G.I.s and two ex-prisoners a Spaniard and a Czech and taken back to the camp and interrogated by three prisoners and shot by an American Cuban soldier.

The Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials were a set of two consecutive trials of the German World War II criminals, carried over from the Dachau International Military Tribunal. Between March 29 and May 13, 1946, and then from August 6 to August 21, 1947, a total of 69 former Nazi officials were tried. Among them were some of the former guards at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system and August Eigruber, a former Gauleiter of Upper Austria. Among the defendants were also Viktor Zoller (former commander of the SS-Totenkopf guard battalion), and doctors Friedrich Entress (an SS member and a medic who practiced

SS SturmbannfĂźhrer Dr. Eduard Krebsbach at Dachau trials, sentenced on 13th May 1946 and executed on 28th May

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medical experiments on hundreds of inmates; killing most of them with injections of phenol), Eduard Krebsbach and Erich Wasicky (responsible for running the camp's gas chambers). The Mauthausen-Gusen commander, Franz Ziereis, was shot several weeks after the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen camps and died in former Camp Gusen I on May 24, 1945. All of the defendants were accused of a wide variety of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Among them was murder, torture, beating and starving the inmates. After six weeks all the defendants were found guilty. 58 were sentenced to death by hanging (9 were later paroled and their sentences were changed to life imprisonment), whilst three were sentenced to life imprisonment. All the death sentences were carried out on May 27 and May 28 of 1947 in Landsberg Prison.

The second Mauthausen Camp Trial started on August 6, 1947. Altogether 8 former members of the camp's administration were accused of the same set of crimes as in the former trial. On August 21 the verdict was reached.

Four Nazis were sentenced to death by hanging, one for life imprisonment, two for short-term sentences and one was acquitted of all the charges. The death sentences were carried out on August 10, 1948.

Spanish Trials

In July 2008 The Fiscal of the Spanish National Audience requested that this Supreme Tribunal pursue the prosecution of several ex-SS Nazis involved in the deaths of 4,460 Spaniards who died in three extermination camps – Mauthaüsen (4,300 Spaniards died), Sachsenhausen (up to 100 Spanish deaths) and Flossenburg (at least 60 Spaniards died). Among the Republican prisoners at Mauthaüsen were 8 Jews who had fought during the Spanish Civil War; the first to die was a doctor who could not keep working at the pace of the others and the SS gave him a wire to hang himself in front of the others. The other seven, all Romanians, decided that there was no future for them so the next day they marched towards the barbed wire fence singing the “Internationale" and were machine gunned by the soldiers. The Fiscal had sufficient documentary proof to ask for the trial against four ex-SS guards who lived in USA since the end of the war.

Most of these prisoners were Republican refugees who according to the fiscal report were included in extermination projects designed by the Nazi nationalist system, against the prisoners will, quoting reasons for their extermination as their race, nationality, religion and political convictions.

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One of the most important Spanish prisoners in Sachsenhausen was the Republican Largo Caballero, former President of the country and Secretary General of the UGT. He described how his particular group of prisoners were marched from the camp as the Allies neared and were beaten en route.

He was rescued by the Russians and spent what little remained of his life in Paris where he died on 23rd March 1946 and buried there, only to be reinterred in Madrid in 1978 with the arrival of democracy in Spain.

Largo Caballero Many former SS men lived out their lives in Spain and in a pizzeria restaurant in Torrevieja town centre a Belgian lady, who was a former concentration camp prisoner, was shocked when she came face to face with a former SS member whom she recognised from her time in the camps.

Then there was an infamous Nazi Dr. Aribert Heim of Mauthaüsen had fled Germany when the avenging noose of the Allied investigators was closing in and he lived his life in several countries. His youngest son visited him in Cairo where he had supposedly become a Moslem and changed his name to Tarek Farid Hussein and supposedly the doctor died in an hotel there on 10th August 1992 and was buried. But there is no death certificate, nor grave to substantiate this claim, which means that the family cannot demand the inheritance of over a million dollars still in his name, so the hunt goes on. There is evidence that the family had sent sums of money to a Spanish address and it is presumed that the doctor was still alive in 2009 and in Spain where the Catalan police investigated and reckoned that he had been tipped off and gone into hiding elsewhere. Heim was known as Dr. Death because of his experiments Nazi Dr. Aribert Heim of with prisoners. At least 26 Spanish Mauthaüsen eluded justice for the prisoners were operated on and eight rest of his life and possibly lived in died in Mauthaüsen and Gusen under Spain the ministrations of the then handsome aormi@icloud.com

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27-year old doctor, as well as hundreds of other prisoners of various nationalities and creeds, often with lethal injections of kerosene. One of the Spanish survivors was Manuel Garcia Borrado who for 20 years became the guardian and administrator of the Mauthaüsen camp as a memorial site and in 1983 was decorated for his work by the Austrian government on his retirement. Heim was reported to have lived in Denia, Ibiza and the Costa Brava at various times.

The last surviving Spaniard Mauthausen prisoner was Esteban Pérez Pérez, who died just short of his 104th birthday in November 2014. He had joined the 15th International Brigade, fled to France and worked on the Maginot Line before was captured at Dunkirk. In Mauthausen he was Nº 5042 and worked in the tube factory, then the construction of roads and underground shelters of the V1 and V2 rocket construction. A couple of television documentaries have been made of his life.

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of Spanish Cookery

by Pat Hynd

RED, WHITE, PINK…AND BLUE?

At the beginning of eighties, a new development in Spain was a white wine in a blue bottle. It had its origins in Rias Baixas. It was a perfectly good wine but never caught on.

Possibly the lingering image of chemist bottles in blue denoted a poisonous substance.

But now there is a new wine on the market, this time a blue wine in a clear bottle. Spanish entrepreneurial winemaker Gik has created an electric blue, sweet wine to be served slightly chilled. It also needs to be served in a glass that best displays that startling hue.

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category—is made from an undisclosed blend of red and white grapes predominantly sourced from vineyards in La Rioja, Zaragoza, León (all located about three hours north of Madrid), and Castilla-La Mancha (about two hours south of Madrid) The wine took two years to develop in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country and Azti Tecnalia, the food research department of the Basque Government.

The blue inspiration came from Blue Ocean Strategy, a book written by W. Chan Kim, a Korean-born business theorist. "He tells about red oceans in his book, representing business markets saturated by specialists (sharks) who fight for the same variables and for a reduced number of clients (fish), and end up in water turned red. And how it’s necessary to revert this, by innovating and creating new variables, back to blue. This seemed poetic for us to turn a traditionally red beverage into a blue one,” says one of the instigators of Gik. A base wine is created from red and white grapes, then anthocyanin and indigo pigments are added to turn it blue and the wine is softened with sweeteners.

Anthocyanin comes from grape skins.

Its makers recommend serving the 11.5% Gik cold due to its sweetness. The unconventional wine is aimed at younger consumers who are always looking for something different from their wine experience. it was nothing more than the simple desire to rebel against convention and introduce a breath of fresh air into the traditional world of Spanish wine-making. Or, in their own words, ‘we believe in the creative rebellion, we build new things, break with the past and create our future.’

“We wanted to create an innovative and daring product in tune with the changing world – the wine industry needs a little revolution.”

The website describes the colour blue as representing “movement, innovation, fluidity, change and infinity”.

It continues with the following quote by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky: “The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure.”

The first batch has gone on sale for €10 a bottle via the Gik website and the plan is to make the wine at different wineries across Spain depending on demand. None of the six founders have any previous winemaking experience.

Suggested pairings with the sweet blue wine are very international and include Japanese sushi, nachos with guacamole, pasta carbonara, and smoked salmon, in addition to music by James Blake, Alt J, and Minus the Bear.

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Tosta de Salmon Ahumado This is a simple starter which needs to be served as soon as it is made; it also makes a good tapa.

300gr. smoked salmon 8 eggs 4 slices of bread 4 spoonfulls of cream 4 spoonfuls of bu>er salt & black pepper Spread bu>er on one slice of toasted bread.

Whisk the eggs with the cream, salt and pepper, add the remaining butter and make scrambled egg - this is easily and quickly done in less than a minute if you use a microwave, but is easily done over a hot stove.

Put scrambled egg on the toast, which could be cut into four pieces, and top with a slice of smoked salmon: serve immediately.

Carbonara 225g/8oz dried spaghetti 1 tbsp olive oil 150g/5oz smoked pancetta, cubed 1 garlic clove 2 free-range eggs 150ml/5fl oz double cream 100g/3½oz pecorino or parmesan, grated salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tbsp chopped fresh marjoram leaves or flatleaf parsley handful rocket leaves, lightly dressed with olive oil and lemon juice, to serve

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Boil the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water according to packet instructions.

Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat and fry the pancetta and garlic for 2-3 minutes, until the pancetta is crisp and browned.

Reduce the heat to low.

In a bowl, lightly beat the eggs with the cream and most of the grated cheese, reserving a little cheese for the garnish. Season generously with freshly ground black pepper.

Drain the cooked spaghetti, reserving a few tablespoons of the cooking water.

Tip the spaghetti into the pan with the pancetta and pour in the cream and egg mixture. Mix well over a very low heat, adding a little of the reserved pasta water to loosen the mixture if needed.

Divide the pasta between two serving bowls and sprinkle with the remaining cheese and the chopped herbs. Serve immediately with the rocket salad on the side.

Guacamole Ingredients 4 mild chillies, finely chopped bunch coriander, chopped 2 tomatoes, finely chopped salt, to taste 1 onion, finely chopped ½ lime, juice only 3 ripe avocados Method 1 In a pestle and mortar, pound the chillies, coriander, tomatoes, salt and onion to a fine paste.

2 Add a little water and lime juice to make a looser mixture. Mash in the avocados.

Serve.

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Salt in Spain - Mallorca/ Palma

by Dave Stewart

We have had a look before at Torrevieja’s salt lake and production and it is covered very well in the history book Cameos of Torrevieja, but Spain has several other salinas.

Salinas d’Es Trenc, Campos, Mallorca These SALT lakes offer guided tours as well as packets of fine and rough grain SALT. A canal links the Mediterranean to the various areas so keeps them active and able to produce the SALT as the hot sun dries up the water leaving the SALT behind. It is also an important area for seeing wildlife. As elsewhere the workings required a lot of labour, but with new technologies in the 1950’s and 60’s this was cut down.

The SALT location of the Levant are in the south-east of Mallorca, nowadays one of the zones better preserved from the real-estate speculation and of the tourism of masses, thanks to being declaration a Natural Area of Special landscape and rural Interest. It is a natural space mentioned by the Law of Natural Spaces

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(LEN) autonomous of the year 1991, which considered this zone as Natural Area of Special Interest (ANEI), qualified as nonurbanizable.

The Nature reserve possesses a surface of 1500 hectares that include a virgin sandbank of more than 3 kilometres of length that constitutes the beach.

The adjacent area is where we can find a dynamic ecosystem formed by different strips of dunes with vegetation adapted to the strong wind and to the high salinity, such as the salicornia, or the marine thistle, shrubs like the zamarrilla or Sant Ponç's grass and trees such as the pine, the sabina and the tamarindo. It is also valuable as an extensive wetland because migratory birds stop over. This wealth in the ecosystems supports the presence of more than 170 species of birds, besides numerous autochthonous plants.

Salinas de Fuencaliente, La Palma island The salt pans of Fuencaliente are situated in the south of the island of La Palma, (which has been declared a Biosphere Reserve).

The water is captured from the waves of the Atlantic Ocean that wash onto the shores of Fuencaliente, in the south of the island of La Palma.

The primary heating takes place in small ponds where the salt concentrates from 36 gr. /litre to approx. 290 gr. /litre before reaching the crystallization ponds.

This water with such a high content of salt is then poured into the salt pans, which are small rectangular ponds of mud and black rock that attract heat and allow an even higher concentration of 360 gr. /litre‚ the highest concentration that can be reached.

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The salt workers operate in the traditional ways.

Since ancient Roman times salt has been collected and appreciated as a special commodity. Certain traditional tools were used then that are still in use nowadays, such as the rake and scraper and the sieve, the latter used especially in the collection of the much-appreciated “salt blossom�.

Before the first autumn rains the salt harvested must be stored, as this takes place between May and October and into November. The wheelbarrows and the spades represent craftsman tools, to be used with care so as not to damage the structure of the salt pans that yield this delicate natural product.

During the winter season, the salt pans are cleaned and repaired for the next crop.

It was in the year 1967, that the idea was born to construct salt pans in order to supply the local La Palma market. In spite of the poor expectation of salt production elsewhere in the Canary Islands, Don Fernando Hernandez, a visionary, started this difficult enterprise according to the model of the salt pans in Lanzarote, with the help of Don Luis Rodriguez, an expert in sea salt extraction.

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A third generation of salt producers now takes up the challenge to make the salt more popular. This family has united in their effort to gain recognition for their enterprise. The craft work in the salt pans is passed on from sons to grandsons, always maintaining the same name of TENEGUA Sea Salt, as homage to the last eruption on the island. The volcano Tenegua spattered this spot with its ashes in 1971, when it erupted and interrupted the construction of the salt pans for a year.

Ornithologists, botanists and scientists took a keen interest in this area and in 1994 it was declared an Area of Scientific Interest. (By law of LENAC 12/1994, of 19th December). HIGH ECOLOGICAL INTEREST

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Just because of its flora and fauna, the salt pans of Fuencaliente would already be of high ecological interest, but there is another factor that multiplies this value: it is a place where many migrating birds, rest, feed and sometimes reproduce.

In 1994, the Canarian government declared the salt pans of Fuencaliente an Area of Scientific Interest. The reason is that it is one of the few existing areas with water in the Canaries, especially onLa Palma, and as such it acts like a magnet to migrating waders.

A PLACE OF REST AND FEEDING FOR THE BIRD COLONIES. From autumn to spring, when many species of birds coming from Europe and going to Africa on their yearly migration, the Canary Islands become an obligatory rest stop for those birds on the rather more westerly routes. Some species even pass the winter on our islands and later return to Europe without ever reaching their final or initial destination in Africa. Others simply rest and continue their journey (birds of passage or migrating species) to their African destination.

On this coastline and especially in the salt pans, between 30 to 50 different birds species can usually be seen, feeding on the multiple organisms thriving in the salt basins. Therefore, in the salt pans of Fuencaliente in autumn one can observe plovers, dunlins, sandpipers, turnovers and even some rare species like flamencos and sheldrakes.

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regions have become extremely sparse. This phanerogam is a protected species and these salt pans are one of the very few places where this flower can be seen.

Artemia salina

The Artemia salina is another one of these peculiar life forms of these habitats. It is a small crustacean capable of producing eggs, which dry out naturally when the water evaporates. The embryo however stays alive in a latent form for up to 10 years. These eggs are transported in the claws of migrating birds, and are rehydrated and brought back to life when the ideal conditions are found in other pools or salt pans. Together with the rotifers, they actually form the basis of the fish cultivation industry in open waters, as they are an excellent food for fish breeding. The Artemia can live in the basins as well as in the pans with a high salt density and studies have proven that they can resist concentrations of300 gram of salt per litre.

The salt pans have expanded. In 1994, with help of one of the more important UNESCO programs, the salt extraction area was enlarged to its present extension of 35.000 square metres and finally a dream has been realised. The salt extraction complex now forms part of one of the important natural visitor attractions on the island.

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THE PRODUCTION OF SALT BY MEANS OF SUN, WIND AND SKILLED MANUAL WORK, PRODUCES THE FOLLOWING RESULTS IN PURE, NATURAL SEA SALT Sea salt is one of the most consistent ingredients of home cooking since prehistoric times. It has many uses, especially as to enhance the taste of food or as a means for conserving perishable products, like meat and fish. The natural way of extracting salt is by the evaporation of water using solar heat, which assures that the quality of Tenegua Sea Salt is 100% natural.

The big difference between large commercial salt factories, where salt is collected only once a year, and the small salt pans of Fuencaliente, is that here the salt is harvested 7 or 8 times a year, through a difficult process, which produces salt with a fine grain and great quality that carries all the characteristics of a biological product.

There is an Interpretation Center with museum content, and ethnographic information, complemented by themed restaurant, bar and souvenir shop.

The salt shines, not just in the constant heat of the sun and the young land surrounding it, but also after dusk when the lighthouse illuminates the south of La Palma.

Just one other place to visit in these fascinating and unique islands and the themed restaurant often holds special tastings.

Fotos: Jardin de la Sal

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A man dedicated to a cause is Steven Monk-Dalton who last year walked from Orihuela to London Courts to make a point about the painful realities surrounding broken marriages and the children involved. This year he has taken to the air for the same cause, Reunite International and make a successful tandem parachute jump from the skies above Madrid. He has jumped and is looking for sponsorship which can be made at www.justgiving.com/reunite-skydive

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THINK BEFORE YOU GET A PET

by Pat Hynd

In the past it was very common in Spain for holidaymakers to abandon their pet before returning home. Fortunately this is less so now as there are fines against doing so and, with rice-grain sized microchips for dogs and some cats, it’s easier to locate the owner. Although we are looking here at animals and holidays all town halls are obliged to keep a register of dogs and their microchip details. For this you require a veterinary card or animal passport, a copy of owner’s identity document, a copy of a current identity for an animal of company. Local authorities are becoming more pro-animal, Mmdid for example no longer will destroy strays. And of course pay the inevitable current tax. Alicante courts are introducing a newer-education program for animal abusers aimed at preventing recurrence of offenses.

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Potential dog adopters should carefully decide whether or not to bring a pet home and look at all the factors. Can you afford the dog, spend the necessary amount of time with them, and meet their mental and physical needs before agreeing to get one. Make sure nobody in the household is allergic before you bring it home, and be responsible and get your new pet spayed or neutered. The family doesn’t realize that these allergies can often be treated or managed, so check out if this can be arranged.

There are several reasons why people abandon a pet. Those who get dogs without realizing what they are committing to are the first to abandon them. Saddest of all is when people die without having made arrangements for their companions. Often these animals are elderly and don’t adapt well to the shelter environment. Some of them never make it out of the shelter—they are scared or unfriendly, and potential adopters pass them by.

Impulse buying: Dogs are cute and are often purchased or adopted on impulse without much thought going into what is involved as far as training and care.

Mostly pets are bought for children and they must be taught responsibility for their pet, going walkies, picking up the shit, feeding, washing etc. A pet is a good way to teach a child responsibilities and often en route learns about loving and caring for others.. and even the stress of death.

Remember that it works two ways as a pet can suffer a trauma when its family dumps it or its carer dies. A pet is also a great companion for the elderly and lonely, but has the same responsibilities for caring for the pet.

In Spain six out of ten homes has a domestic pet. 120,000 dogs and cats are abandoned annually and a proposed law is hoping to cut this figure down by making it illegal for impulse buying. But this leaves the onus on pet shops NOT to display animals. These proposals also deal with sacrificing animals although there is a law prohibiting this practise since 2003.

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Autonomous regions are beginning to treat animal cruelty more seriously and Madrid has raised fines between 300 and 30,000 euros for different infractions.

The end of the summer holidays is always a time when animals are abandoned, not always because its owners are fed up with it, but because at the time of leaving for home it cant be found, so it is abandoned, leaving a problem for the tourist destination.

If owners decide they don’t want their pet for whatever reason, far better to take it to a refuge for animals and even pay something towards its keep until its re-housed. Animals can’t fight for their legal rights so it is up to animal lovers and conscientious owners to do the best for these pets.

Travelling safely: Likewise often car owners do not realise the implications of a carrying an animal on board. According to the Road Safety laws a driver must take care in the placement of an animal being transported that it does not interfere with the driver. There is a fine for improper attention to keeping an animal under control within a vehicle, which at present is only 100 euros fine and no detraction of points. A pet is considered as part of the family nucleus according to the law and should fall under the Road Safety acts, depending on size and weight. It is a crime to abandon an animal on the public highway as it can result in an accident for other drivers.

Transporting a small pet is fairly easy as it can be in a suitable container wedged in the rear seat floor; but care should be had for the safety of the

It’s an offense in some towns to feed feral

animal should there be a collision. Larger pets should be kept in the rear boot with a grill or net between them and the occupants. On a shorter journey they can be kept in the rear seat with a harness type safety belt.

Both RACE and Royal Canin have systems that clip on to the pet and into the car’s own safety belt system.

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Pets become part of a family

five minutes. According to this foundation 16% of people abandon their pet for economic reasons and 9% admit to being fed up with a pet. The estimated cost of having a dog is around 900 euros and a cat 665 euros.

Animal care: Invest in protection of the pet from parasites, or infirmities, and adequate alimentation.

If need be there are food Banks that can supply pet food and even in some cases accessories such as blankets or products against fleas and other insect pests.

Before undertaking responsibility of a pet then check out how much it will cost.

If going on Holiday and you can’t take your pet with you then look at alternatives such as Hotels that will accept pets, or a kennels for short stays or even individuals who cares for pets for a price.

Should a pet die then the owner has to inform the town hall where it has been registered. In Valencia region it is RIVIA.org for census of pets and a valuable webpage. aormi@icloud.com

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ONCE AGAIN WE ARE PRODUCING A SOLIDARITY CALENDAR FOR USE OF VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS SO THAT THEY CAN SELL IT FOR THEIR OWN FUNDS. IF YOUR ASSOCIATION WISHES TO PARTICIPATE THEN PLEASE CONTACT ANDY ORMISTON AT aormi@icloud.com

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A useful booklet is Guía para viajar con animales en España, by Fundación Affinity. Here are details of 3.500 hotels, 3.700 rural houses, or 1,000 campsites where people can enjoy holidays with their pet.

If you have a dog and experience a lifestyle change, try your best to work through it without leaving your dog at a shelter. If you find yourself with less time on your hands, consider putting your dog into daycare or hiring a dog walker to give it some exercise and attention during the day. If you move and are unable to take the dog with you or cannot afford the costs anymore, seek out responsible new caretakers for your pet. If you develop an allergy, try bathing the dog in hypoallergenic shampoos to alleviate your condition. If you find a stray on the street, foster it until you are able to secure a reliable home.

By doing your part, you will help to ensure that fewer dogs end up confused, abandoned, and facing destruction in overcrowded animal shelters. If you would like to help either as a volunteer or a supporter then there are various associations in our area.

APAH - Pilar de la Horadada - www.apahrescue.org - 616 210 850 The K9 Club - Urb. La Marian - k9clubinfo@gmail.com - 633 936 501 PETS IN SPAIN - San Fulgencio - info@petsinspain.info - 654 628 884 SAT - Dolores - www.satanimalrescue.com/es/es_ -966 710 047 FERAL RIENDS - Gran Alacant - 697 574 199 CATS’N DOGS AID - ROJALES - info@catsndogsaid.com Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre - Rojales - www.easyhorsecare.net/ - 652 02 19 80 aormi@icloud.com

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Bookshelf by Pat Hynd Hamlet: The Greatest Theatre Tour on Earth

Throughout this year we have produced several articles about Shakespeare in this 400th anniversary celebrating his life. We also wrote about Mary’s Meals in our August edition last year - Nº 18.

All the world has been a stage for Shakespearean actor Keith Bartlett – but now he is taking a break from his day job to raise £250,000 for an Argyll charity.

Mary’s Meals, which has its headquarters in the village of Dalmally, feeds more than one million hungry children all over the world.

Mr Bartlett recently performed with the “Globe to Globe” production of Hamlet, where a company from the Globe Theatre performed Hamlet in every country in the world in just two years.

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It was during this time that he was inspired to support Mary’s Meals after seeing the inequality wrought by poverty in many of the countries he visited.

Mary’s Meals provides a daily meal to more than 1.1 million children in their place of education in 12 different countries around the world.

Mr Bartlett has already kicked off his fundraising efforts, raising £10,000 from a commemorative book Hamlet, about his journey around the world performing 293 times in 200 countries. Sometimes in full costume, other times normal clothes and wooden swords. On the final curtain Mr. Bartlett swapped copies of his book - Hamlet: The Greatest Theatre Tour on Earth - for donations at the final night of the Globe to Globe tour for a suggested £10 donation.

The actor said: “The idea of Mary’s Meals seemed to have such a solid logic behind it. Education is surely one of the best ways to try and help people out of poverty and to become selfsufficient. Having seen so many children emerging from impoverished households in immaculate school uniforms and walking miles to school, it was obvious to me how high a priority education is to many from deprived backgrounds.”

Places played at by the Globe Company included a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, then Yemen, Syria, Libya and Central African Republic, Cameroon. All hotspots. In Angola at an unscheduled stop: “One ill-tempered passerby demanded to know why we were speaking in English and not French – language being a contentious issue in the dual-lingual country. But most seemed content to listen, if not entirely understand. The language of slapstick is universal, however, and each time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern fell over or slapped Hamlet’s bottom, the many children erupted in peals of laughter. They applauded the Ghost on every exit and cheered on the fight with vigour; there were jeers at the death of Claudius, and groans at the death of Hamlet. Without any reason to do so, they watched”. It is an excellent book full of anecdotes and adventures and worth more than a mere ten pounds token fee.

To find out more about Mary’s Meals, or to donate, visit www.marysmeals.org.uk or To purchase a book copy send a cheque for £10.50 to Mary's Meals c/o Keith Bartlett, 32 Gap Road, Wimbledon, SW19 8JG. more info on the tour:- http://globetoglobehamlet.tumblr.com aormi@icloud.com

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Rotary Club sells salt cellars for AFA

by Pat Hynd

Once again The Torrevieja branch of the Rotary Club has launched a ceramic salt cellar to be sold in aid of the local AFA Alzheimers Association. Presented in a tower shape with hand painted symbols of the Costa Blanca, Rotary Club and AFA in an attractive box with the famous Torre del Moro that is listed among the 100 Castillos de Costa Blanca.

The Deputation de Alicante will use them at tourist exhibitions and fairs as emblems of the Costa Blanca. Eduardo Dolon the vice-president in charge of tourist promotion said that the Provincial government and the Costa Blanca tourist board have shown once again their service to the people of the region especially those who need support. All the benefits of this salt initiative will the AFA funds. One of the intentions is to send a tower salt cellar to the famous television cook Karlos Arguiñano in the hope he will show it on his daily tv show which is filmed during summer in a seaside background. The AFA president, Mª Purificación García Álvarez, expressed her thanks for the continued support of the Rotary Club and also that of the Alicante Deputation, especially to Eduardo Dolon.

Fotos: Joaquin Carrion

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In the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre on 6 August Payas Dance School presents JUNGLE BOOK music and dance in aid of AECC (Asociación Española contra el Cáncer) y F.A.N.S. Torrevieja (Familias de acogida de Niños Saharauis) - 5 euros

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Elche - 8 - 12 August Moors & Christians 13 August Fireworks Nit de l’Alba

Throughout August evening concerts in el Castillo and other parts of Santa Pola

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