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This is shaping up to be a great summer. It's time to get out with your friends and family and immerse yourselves in some of the greatest sporting events and musical shows on earth and with so much variety out there, there should be something to enthrall you over the next few weeks and months.

The football elite have kicked things off with Euro 2012 and Spain should surely to be in at the later stages of the competition which means that bars will be crammed

I Heart Valencia. We bring you all the usual features that make inVLC the best free magazine in town and we also reveal who won this month's photo competition. If you didn't win why not try entering next month to be in line to win a couple of nice bottles of wine for your trouble?

As always enjoy the read and if you have any comments, questions or thoughts please send them on to us at invlceditor@gmail.com.

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and will be thankful for the welcome boost to trade. The F1 carnival also comes to town at a time when the first 7 races of the season have been won by 7 different drivers to make it one of the most exciting starts to the season ever. We are also spoiled for choice by musical events the length and breadth of the Valencian Community. This month's magazine concentrates on just that. We have a handy guide to all the best festivals in the area and also we pit Spain's foremost festival FIB Benicassim against England's finest, Glastonbury, in this month's

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15/06/1219 Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. It also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.

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lean Beaches | The Valencian Community has the second largest number of award winning beaches in Spain. It collected 45 out of the 173 'Q for Quality' flags awarded (second only to Andalusia with 58).

The flags are awarded for reaching set standards beyond just clean water and sand such as the level of security services, rescue, entertainment, information, health, access, attached facilities, bars and restaurants and the overall cleanliness of the beaches.

"One in four Spanish beaches with the flag is located on the Valencian coast," said a council spokesman after collecting the awards. "To have 25 kilometres of coastline is a real gem and we must aim to maintain all its beauty and quality."

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hilds death | Two Bolivian women have been arrested and charged with kidnap simulation and murder in Valencia. They threw the body of a three-year-old boy into a skip after he had died whilst under their care.

They say they panicked after the child died and initially tried to explain his disappearance as a kidnap to try to deny their involvement and the fact that they were in the country illegally.

The body was found at the landfill site at Dos Aguas after a widespread search of the city. They have been moved to an isolation unit at the prison in Picassent to await trial after receiving death threats from fellow inmates.

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ealth problems | The Health Department have released a report into the general health of the population in the Valencian Community and the findings are simply staggering. An amazing two-thirds of adults are reportedly overweight or obese and 50% of all children. A worrying finding states that 14% of adults are diabetic and 33% on top of that figure have issues with their metabolism processing sugars which is called pre-diabetes. That is almost one in two of the population.

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LC-NYC Flights | Delta Airlines have announced a 4 times a week service flying from Valencia direct to New York. Connecting flights in New York will also give Valencianos an easier service to fly to Miami, Orlando and Los Angeles (switching in New York). This comes just two years after an attempt by the same airline to link the two cities failed due to a lack of ticket sales.

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orest fire | A huge blaze, sadly thought to be started deliberately, at Benágeber in the Utiel-Requena area of the Valencian Community has finally been extinguished by 300 firefighters and seven water spraying planes. A total of 667 hectares of forest has been destroyed, which is the equivalent of over 800 football pitches.

16/06/1779 Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins a few weeks later.

It becomes the longest siege ever endured by the British army finally ending on 7 February 1783 (over 3.5 years later).

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ant to see the Valencian Community on the cheap? Every month we'll list some great spots where you can enjoy Spanish culture, nature and have some good, low-cost fun. This month we'll be: 1| looking for the best ways to cool down. So we'll be eating picnics in the park (page 25), sheltering under the giant trees in the plazas, drinking iced coffees (cafe del tiempo) and looking for our favourite ice-cream vendor.

2| taking a day trip to the Baños del Almirante. It is a 14th century Arab bathing house, and best of all, it's free. Don't take your costume, however, as you can't swim there anymore. www.banysdelalmirall.org

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3| going to the beach for the fiesta de San Juan. Get there early evening with some wood to burn, and sausages on sticks to cook (page 9).

The Baños del Almirante (the Admiral's Baths) were founded in 1313 by nobleman Pere de Vila-rasa who wanted public baths on his land. The baths are similar to an Arab steam bath (a hamman): a vestibule or rest area; three large vaulted rooms (cold, warm and hot rooms) which constitute the warm and humid area of the bath; latrines and a boiler room. Significant renovations were made on the property in the 19th Century with marble bathtubs and an arched entranceway and interior tiles similar to those used in the Palace of Granada. It closed in 1959, and the was building restored to pre-19th century renovations between 1962-1963 and again in 2001.

17/06/1972 Five White House employees are arrested after trying to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Building in Washington DC. This event eventually leads to President Richard Nixon resigning.

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San Juan Fiesta | VLC & the Community towns | 23 June, in the evening.

A fun event for all the family, with fireworks, music and bonfires. For those in need of a bit of luck, jump carefully over the fires three times and enter the sea at midnight seven times, in order to be recuperated, refreshed, and rejuvenated.

We recommend taking little hotdog sausages and some long kebab sticks - spear the sausages and put them next to the fire to cook, so you don't burn yourself.

Moors & Christians | Maritime area | 1st weekend of July. www.mycmaritimo.com

San Cristobel | Grau | 10 July, processions plus Vintage cars at 8pm.

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Jazz | Palau de la Música | This festival has National been in place since 10-17 July. holidays mean 1871, set up by the This year at the XVI Festival fewer buses, and local Government de Jazz you can see Dianne most shops, banks to provide fun Reeves, Eliane Elias, Concha & supermarkets and entertainment Buika, Big Band Sedajazz, close. throughout the sweaty Wallace Roney and more. It all months for all those who ends with a free outdoor concert. choose to stay in or visit VLC. Get a full brochure from the Palau. www.palaudevalencia.com Live Concerts | Park Viveros Bullfighting | Plaza de Toros Tickets from El Corte Ingles, www.torosvalencia.com Ticketmaster, Bancaja's Servientrada. www.feriadejulio.com/2012 Parade | Paseo Alameda | Last Traditional music | Parque del Sunday of July, 8pm.

Oeste, Jardin de Ayora A dramatic interactive parade of stunning flower enveloped floats.

Dance & theatre | Jardin del Palau Watch as the ground becomes carpeted in colours.

Markets | Park del Oeste, Jardin It's all followed by a Battle of the de Ayora, Puente Exposicion Flowers and a Mascletà (fireworks).

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Fireworks | Castillo at Arenas beach near the port | Every Saturday night in July at 12 midnight.

Carmen, Grau, Trinidad | 16 July all day.

Pick up a programme from your local tourist information or venue.

In the community & neighbouring towns - Alicante (A), Castellon (C), Valencia (V) June 22| Sant Joanet (V) 22| Caudiel (C), Benafigos, San Juan Bautista (C), Massanassa (V) 25| Various Towns, San Juan, Benavites (V), Santa Paula 27| Pego, Del Stm. Ecce Homo (A) 29| Barracas (C), Cabanes (C), Castellón

De La Plana (C), Canet D’en Berenguer (V), Catadau (V), Godelleta (V), Moixent (V), Sempere (V), San Pedro

July 10| Alboraya (V), Picassent (V), San Cristóbal 11| Alfarp (V), Catadau (V), Llombai (V), Picanya (V), Jérica (C), Cristo De La Sangre

13 & 16| Almussafes (V), San Bartolomé Y Santísima Cruz, Millena, Fiestas Patronales (A) Courtesy of www.docv.gva.es All information correct at time of print.

Check with the local tourist information when making plans.

20/06/1837–22/01/1901 The reign of Queen Victoria. Her reign of 63 years & 7 months is longer than any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history. Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne for 60 years.

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ummer means sunshine, the great outdoors and music so that makes it the perfect time for us to look at more depth into the biggest music events that both Spain and England put on each year and make them fight in a battle of the superfestivals. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts takes on the FIB Festival, which has its 18th incarnation this year just up the Valencian coast in Benicassim. We felt it would be unfair for the newcomer to go directly up against the present day Glastonbury so to even things up a bit we take Glastonbury back in time to the period up to and including its first 18 years (the period 1970-1995). Glastonbury occasionally misses a year to allow the ground of the site to recover. Let's see what happens.

Round 1 | Origins The first Glastonbury was spawned just after the true heyday of music festivals when people were turning off, tuning out and dropping in. The 60's had finished and already the hippie ideal was already almost over (after the relatively successful Isle Of Wight Festival, the messy Woodstock and the absolutely disastrous Altamont Festival, all in 1969). Glastonbury started out small and was originally called the Pilton Festival.

Organiser Michael Eavis had seen Led Zeppelin play an outdoor gig in Bath earlier in the year and this encouraged him to put on his own festival. 1,500 people turned up to see T Rex but they failed to show so The Kinks headlined instead. Not a bad replacement really and good practice for the following year when 12,000 saw David Bowie headline after Pink Floyd cancelled. After 1971 the festival would not be seen again until 1978 when a meagre 500 would turn up as Eavis started again from scratch.

The first FIB took place in 1995 and the headliners were The Charlatans and Supergrass. In 1994, new types of music from the United States and the United Kingdom started coming into Spain and meant that for the first time Spain received the latest music from the other side of the Atlantic at the same time as the rest of Europe. CDs from groups such as Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Oasis and Blur began to be sold in shops. Luis Calvo and Joako Ezpeleta, editors of the magazine Spiral along with two others apparently 'dreamed of creating a perfect space to celebrate an international meeting of young people of those which would like the music. A special place in which lives a unique experience, enriching and unforgettable, where participants are able to share experiences, interests and likings and change this into emotional support which will allow the groups to offer special, unrepeatable concerts.' And so Benicassim was born.

WINNER Glastonbury - a great headliner managing to step in when another one failed to make it. It also stayed true to its roots with just a £1 entry fee.

Benicassim's original vision seems to have been written by a professional marketer in a suit. Uncool.

Round 2 | Location The English site is 6 miles to the east of the town of Glastonbury and in between the villages of Pilton and Pylle in the county of Somerset. It is overlooked by the Glastonbury Tor in the mystical 'Vale of Avalon' and the area has a number of legends and spiritual traditions. It is also a 'New Age' site of interest and it has been shown that ley lines converge on the Tor. Ley lines are the alleged alignments of several places of geographical and historical interest and tend to attract people who wear druid costumes.

FIB is held in the seaside resort of Benicassim in the Castellón province of the Valencian Community on the Costa del Azahar, some 100km or so north of Valencia City. It has been a tourist destination for over 100 years.

The concerts originally took place in the Velodrome in the town but the festival now takes place in a location on the opposite side of the town from the beach which has allowed it to grow to its present size.

Draw. While Arthurian legends, standing stones and wizards all make up the Glastonbury charm, Benicassim is by the Mediterranean seaside. Enough said.

18/06/1940 The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

Round 3 | Headlining bands Glastonbury has by now had performances from just about everyone but on checking the records this appears to really have been predominantly since the period we are covering. In 1995 when Oasis headlined, other notable performers by then included Johnny Cash (1994), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1993), Peter Gabriel (1979) and David Bowie (1971) with only Van Morrison, The Cure and Elvis Costello headlining more than once. However many would say that it's not the headliners but the multitude of other events, happenings and performances scattered all over the festival site that make the event what it is.

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Round 4 | Size Glastonbury by 1995 was already huge by the standards of the time with 80,000 revellers cramming in each day for the three-day event.

FIB in 2009 attracted more than 50,000 each day. Figures are unavailable for the last two years but it continues to grow.

WINNER Glastonbury takes it comfortably. A monster of an event. Nowadays the crowd there is in the region of 135,000.

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Round 5 | Controversial moments Death threats were sent to Suzanne Vega in 1989 saying she would be shot on stage. Bravely she played on wearing FIB really can boast some of the biggest bands in the world over its 15 years of being. How about this line up over the years? a bulletproof vest. Glastonbury has also suffered a little over Lou Reed, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Oasis, Depeche Mode, Franz corporate sponsorship interfering with the purists arguing that Ferdinand, Paul Weller, Brian Wilson, Morrissey, Iggy Pop, Muse, the corporate world should play no part.

Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Leonard Cohen, The Killers, Kasabian, Prodigy, Arcade Fire. Also this year sees His Royal FIB has received criticism from nationalist sectors in Spain, Bobness coming to play and the return of the Stone Roses after aimed at the fact that it doesn't support Valencian culture, even their hiatus. though it takes place in the Valencian Community and receives a high amount of public money to finance itself.

WINNER Benicassim takes it! A real surprise definitely helped by more acts being friendlier towards festivals than Draw - both have had their moments! perhaps they were up to the mid-90s.

OVERALL WINNER Glastonbury wins it 3-2. However Benicassim fares pretty well considering. And there is one massive advantage that Benicassim has over Glastonbury this year. At least it's on!

19/06/1987 Basque separatist group ETA sets off a bomb in a Barcelona Supermarket killing 21 & injuring 45. Santiago Arrospide, (known as Santi Potros), and Rafael Caride Simon were sentenced to 790 years in prison for their role in the attack.

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With a jumble of dishes from all over the world, this eclectic-fusion joint is out to satisfy every continental craving. Hailing from Buenos Aires, Jorge took over management of the restaurant six years ago. In doing so, he decided to make some radical changes to spice up the place, which included a mashup of local and global fare.

Given Jorge’s Greek ancestry, Argentine upbringing, and the fact that he now lives in Spain with his Irish wife, Lisa, it is easy to see why the menu draws influence from nearly half a dozen cuisines. Their ever-changing list of specials, displayed inside and outside on a chalkboard, has been an effective lure in drawing Valencian locals into the cool chic dining room. Inside, the setting doesn’t disappoint with its cozy nooks and eye-catching photo exhibitions that line the walls.

While every dish on the menu is mouthwatering and innovative, there are several that you simply can’t pass up.

For foie-gras lovers, they infuse the rich buttery parfait with cognac, chocolate cream and spices, then caramelize it and serve it with a cardamom-apple chutney. Honestly to die for.

Another must-have is the smooth and decadent risotto.

Cooked to perfection and filled with bacon, veggies, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese, this dish will leave you asking for round two. Other items that dazzle include the chicken satay with an irresistible peanut sauce; falafels with a mint-cucumber yogurt dip and seared scallops atop a ratatouille tower and served with a fruity romesco coulis.

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In addition to the polished quality of cooking, the impressive cocktail list and consistently good music differentiate Artico from other restaurants in the area. The harmonious combination of concoctions and jams are both courtesy of Jorge, as he is a former cocktail bar owner, and professional DJ by day (and late, late night). The highlight on the drink menu is the Green Bamboo – a tantalizing mix of gin, cointreau, ginger, spearmint and lemon. Feel free to enjoy one (or three) on the sunny terrace, located in the plaza just in front of the restaurant.

Whether you’re vacationing in Valencia, or a lifetime local, this is a place that cannot be missed. Where else can you eat, drink, dance and take in amazing art pieces?

Make sure to check out Artico’s Facebook page for more information on daily menus, new art and photo exhibitions (Lisa Gingles is currently exhibiting!) and special events.

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01/07/1916 The first day of the Battle of the Somme in France. A horrifying 57,470 men on the British side were casualties of which 19,240 died. By the end of the battle in mid-November a combined total of 1 million soldiers had perished.

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t's the summer and Valencia is the place to be for music. Whether you are the mood for rock, indie, pop, soul or blues you can be sure there will be something to whet your appetite. Here's inVLC's rundown of the best festivals in the Community.

●| Benicassim. 12-15 July € € | €75 each day, €110 for two days, €135 for three and €165 for all days. | Bob Dylan, The Stone Roses, New Order, Florence & The Machine, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, David Guetta, De La Soul, Dizzee Rascal, Katy B, Bombay Bicycle Club, Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status, The Maccabees, Miles Kane, The Vaccines, At The Drive In, The Horrors, Jessie J. | The most anglicised of Spanish Festivals with many Brits and other nationalities joining in the fun in the sun with the locals. Days are spent sunbathing and the music kicks off in the early evening and goes on all night. | www.fiberfib.com

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●| Parque de Viveros, Valencia. 1-22 July € € | Various. Check at El Corte Inglés or online at ticketmaster.es | Los Enemigos & Love Of Lesbian, Amaral y Cyan, George Benson, Pitingo, Hombres G, Los Suaves + La Fuga, Ruben Blades, Macaco + Julieta Venegas, Vetusta Morla + Zoe and Chambao. | Mostly Valenciano locals enjoying a beer or two in the park. | www.conciertosdeviveros.com © Costa de Fuego / Promo / Marilyn Manson

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Costa de Fuego ●| Benicassim. 20-21 July € € | €42 each day or €80 for both days. | Guns'n'Roses, Marilyn Manson, Warcry, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Opeth, Paradise Lost, In Flames and more. | Goth and heavy rock. Expect to see two very different sets of tribes each day - the biker look of denim and long hair the first night and a lot of black and dark purple being worn by people who don't look like they see much sun on the second. | www.costadefuego.com

Low Cost Festival ●| Benidorm (Alicante). 27-29 July € € | from €55 | Kasabian, Suede, Placebo, The Sounds, 2 Many DJ's, Vetusta Morla, Citizens!, Fanfarlo, Etienne De Crecy, Kakkmaddafakka, Is Tropical, The Whip and loads more. | Indie, rock and pop. Expect to see lots of red-skinned foreigners taking a break from the Benidorm pubs to mix it up with the locals. | www.lowcostfestival.es

21/06/1942 A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.

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Date| 2-5 August ●| Burriana (Castellon) € €| €35 but due to change from 16 June | Kaiser Chiefs, Two Door Cinema Club, The Ting Tings, The Wombats, Metronomy, Felix Da Housecat, Crystal Fighters, Crookers, The Sounds, Supersubmarina, Love Of Lesbian, Digitalism, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Lori Meyers, The Zombie Kids and many many more. | Predominantly local crowd enjoying some of the best crowd pleasing bands that Britain and Spain has to offer. | www.arenalsound.com

Date| 16-22 August ●| Benicassim € € | €30 for a day pass (can only be bought at the festival on the day itself) and €160 for a full week's fun. | Sly & Robbie, Beeny Man, Steel Pulse, Barrington Levy, Albarosie & Friends, Michael Rose, Tanya Stephens, Morgan Heritage, Freddy McGregor, Kymani Marley, Andrew Tosh, Tarrus Riley, Johnny Osbourne, Alpha Blondy, Zion Tr ra and many more. rai Train | Chilled maaaaaaan. Expect dreadlocks aplenty and h smell of the Caribbean in the wind. the | www.rototomsunsplash.com

22/06/1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to withdraw his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe.

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trip to the Central Market nowadays will not only reward you with the fresh, local products that we have all come to know and love but also the wide range of international products that seemed to have cropped up in recent years. BritishFoods.es is one of these stalls and boasts a range of trademark British products at reasonable prices such as Marmite, Colman’s, Paxo along with a number of teas, cordials, British bacon and pork sausages as well as a number of well-known ales and beers.

Owner José Luis and his wife Isabel have been providing a number of South American products since 1998 in the central market. They opened ‘Asiatica’ a few years back for those wanting a taste of Asia and decided to open up a place specialising in British products last year. José Luis spent some time in the UK and still fondly remembers the products that he came across whilst living there. José Luis cites the number of fusion restaurants in Valencia and the increasing number of Spanish consumers that, like him, spent time in the UK and know of certain British products that they might not find elsewhere in the city.

José Luis mentions the likes of Jamie Oliver and the number of British celebrity chefs that have their shows beamed into households throughout Spain as the reason for their interest. This might explain the current buying trends– cake ingredients such as icing sugar, colourings, flours and gelatines which all seem to be a popular choice.

There is also a footfall of expats and tourists that stop buy to look at the stall and often buy things for “nostalgic reasons” – amongst those customers the popular choice seems to be the gravies, stocks, soups, ales and the meats that they sell there. “The shop is becoming more well known and lots of British people call us for information about the stall.

Pukka-pie €2,50 Puff pastry €1,45 Pork Sausages (454 gr) €2,95 Back Bacon (400 gr) €4,90 Brown, organic & real ales €3+ We also provide a delivery service and our products can be bought through Facebook by setting up an account although it’s better to come here and visit us in the Central Market – una de las joyas de Valencia.” The Central Market certainly is one of many jewels in the Valencian crown, placing BritishFoods.es right in the centre – perfect to pop in for a quick visit whilst in town.

What’s next for British Foods? Well, José Luis and his wife are all about gastronomy and have a wide range of knowledge and experience. The idea is to open up British gastronomy to the Valencian people – ‘like’ them on Facebook and you’ll receive a number of delicious recipes throughout the week and they look set to start up cooking courses in the future. Their aim is for the stall to become synonymous with British products and British cuisine in the centre of Valencia. British Foods is a new stall, but José Luis and Isabel remain confident that, with time, they will be able to achieve this goal. Why not pop in and say hello?

Take along a copy of inVLC and you’ll get a free re-usable bag worth €1.50 to take away your goodies.

Mercado Central, Pza. Ciutat de Bruges, 963 829 115 or 689 772 397 www.britishfood.es info@britishfood.es britishfood.es 23/06/1611 The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay in the United States. They are never heard from again.

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Cambridge Diploma/ Trinity Diploma (DELTA) You may have seen or heard rumours of that teacher in the corner of your teacher’s lounge. ‘She’s DELTA,’ someone might whisper to you. Maybe she’s writing in her journal in phonetic script or something mad like that. Well, DELTA courses are on offer worldwide, including British Council in Barcelona and Bilbao for those of you wanting to do it in Spain and there are a number of different centres throughout Europe and in the UK. You can do the DELTA full-time (3 months) and part-time (9 months) and it will set you back about £2,500.

Courses normally require at least two years teaching experience with a minimum number of class hours and the initial TEFL qualification. The three modules include Methodology & Resources, Developing Professional Practice & either Extending Practice and ELT Specialism or English Language Teaching Management.

A new online course called The Distance Delta (www.distancedelta. com) is now available and allows you to do the three modules in any order and at your own pace over a period of ten years if necessary. This course can be handy for those situated far away from a centre that offers a face-to-face course, but can incur a certain amount of additional expenses in terms of exam administration and paying for a local tutor to observe classes.

You will also need to attend a twoweek orientation course for module two, which is offered at a number of different centres worldwide.

MA Lingusitics/ MA Applied Linguistics/ MA Tesol Sifting through information on the Internet is a nightmare and you will find a number of different forums about which is better: ‘DELTA’ or an ‘MA’, with each respective side fighting about which is best. Let’s just get this straight – a DELTA is NOT an MA – if you decide to do an MA after doing a DELTA, some institutions will accept 20 credits per module towards this qualification. An MA is still a higher qualification, but many schools and academies prefer the DELTA because it requires a certain degree of practical class time that some MA courses are do not provide.

Humanising Language Teaching (free) www.hltmag.co.uk ELT Journal (€80) eltj.oxfordjournals.org English Language Gazette (£33 – UK addresses, £55 – overseas) www.elgazette.com English Teaching Professional (£4.99 1st year, £28) www.etprofessional.com Modern English Teacher (£4.99 1st year, £28) - www.onlinemet.com Internet TESL Journal (free) – iteslj.org Language Learning & Technology (free) – lit.msu.edu The ELT Newsletter (free) www.eltnewsletter.com (All prices are yearly)

A number of reputable institutions have recently begun to offer online courses. The University of Massachusetts & The University of New England (Linguistics), Nottingham University & The University of Manchester (TESOL) are just four of many. Prices range from £5/7,000 for residents to £15/20,000 if you are an overseas student. Some institutions do not offer a full-time distance learning option, which means that you would have to do it part-time for nearly 27 months if you planned on working at the same time.

These are only a handful and come in a lot cheaper than any DELTA or MA course. If you can convince your academy to subscribe it will work out cheaper for you and beneficial for everyone.

This is all a bit much, isn’t it?

What else is there?

Fair point. Other things you could do yourself would be to subscribe to the number of TEFL journals that there are out there to keep up-to-date with cutting edge TEFL trends and methodologies:

For those of you who really want to get down to learning the language, we'll be bringing you an expression each month. This is our job. Your job? Get out there and use it! Then tell us how you got on... con esto hay para rato – this should keep us going for a while e.g. ¿Tenemos suficiente cerveza? ¡No te preocupes! Con esto hay para rato. Have we got enough beer? Don’t worry. This should keep us going for a while.

I don’t like reading! Is there anything else.

I find that hard to believe. You are a teacher. That’s what you do. If you’d rather something more hands on, however, keep an eye out for future conferences in Valencia and throughout Spain. This way you can steal ideas from people who have splashed out on a DELTA or an MA. WARNING! There might be some minimal reading required from handouts and pamphlets. Try to encourage your academies to let you know of any future conferences.

Orange Language Academy has been an American run language school for the city of Valencia and its provinces since 2005 offering all types of language related services. They run language exchanges at Portland Ale House (Tues & Weds) and Sherlock Holmes* (Thurs).*new www.orangeidiomas.com

26/06/1996 Irish journalist Veronica Guerin is shot while in traffic on the Dublin outskirts. She exposed drug related crime in Ireland - her assassination lead to 150 arrests & convictions and drug crime dropped by 50% over the following year.

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Album To Throw Shapes To | Orbital – Wonky Orbital are back after 8 years and several attempts at stopping making music and growing old(er) graciously. And we should be thankful that they didn’t as with Wonky, Orbital have taken back their crown as the kings of British dance. Their unique sound, a blend of house and techno, reverberates round this album from the 'Chime' inspired opener 'One Big Moment' to the 'Satan' sampling 'Beelzedub', which will no doubt sound as epic live as it does on this album. While individual tracks hark back to distinct times in Orbital’s past, this album is not out of place in the electro-landscape of 2012.

Standout Tracks: One Big Moment, Distractions Album To Use Your Hairbrush As A Mike To | Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls At the time of writing, this album is riding high in the UK charts and Alabama Shakes will surely be talked about in the same powerful husky voices as Kings of Leon were during their early career. The foursome from Athens, fronted by guitarist and primary songwriter Brittany Howard are reportedly spectacular live, and also recorded their album live in the studio, mixing covers and album tracks to give a sound bringing together classic blues, soul and rock ’n’ roll. This has led to comparisons between Howard and legends such as Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, leading the band to be one of the most hotly anticipated festival bands this summer.

Stand Out Tracks: Hold On, Hang Loose Album From A Living Legend | Jack White – Blunderbuss For Jack White, one of the busiest men in music (alongside Damon Albarn and James Murphy) making a bad album is probably harder for him to accomplish than making a good one. Couple this with the subject matter of the album (the dissolution of the White Stripes as well as his marriage), and it was very unlikely that we were going to be surprised with a stinker of an album. And we are not. However, although it may be an obvious statement, remember that this is not another White Stripes album. There is a different feel to the entire project with the loud jagged guitars largely replaced by an acoustic guitar, piano and woodwind. But the end is much the same, another great album by one of the most talented musicians of our generation.

Stand Out Tracks: Love Interruption, Sixteen Salteens Other releases | The Smashing Pumpkins, Justin Bieber, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, The Offspring, 50 Cent and more.

We've had a good think about our favourite summer songs! Here's our soundtrack for the summer.

1| Summer In The City – Lovin Spoonful 2| Summertime – Janis Joplin 3| Staying Out For The Summer – Dodgy 4| Sunday Shining – Finley Quaye 5| Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles 6| Don’t Look Back Into The Sun – The Libertines 7| Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran 8| Sun It Rises – Fleet Foxes 9| Since I Left You – The Avalanches 10| Going Up To The Country – Canned Heat

11| Time To Pretend – MGMT 12| Hot Fun In The Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone 13| Summertime – Mungo Jerry 14| Don’t Steal Our Sun – The Thrills 15| Tony Fatti – White Denim 16| Lazy Sunday – Small Faces 17| Feel Good Hit Of The Summer – Queens Of the Stone Age 18| Setting Sun – The Chemical Brothers 19| Sun – Caribou 20| Jump In The Pool – Friendly Fires

21| Always Like This – Bombay Bicycle Club 22| Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks 23| Surfing USA – The Beach Boys 24| A-Punk – Vampire Weekend 25| Sun Hits The Sky – Supergrass 26| Lisztomania – Phoenix 27| Blister in the Sun – The Violent Femmes 28| Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley 29| She Bangs The Drums – The Stone Roses 30| Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams

28/06/1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan, Victoria. His final stand against police is famous as he dressed in a home-made plate metal armour suit and helmet. He was finally caught and executed by hanging.

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21/06 Madonna - Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi. 2nd night tickets available. €95 June - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play across Spain - but not VLC! €65+ www.ticketmaster.es 23/06 La Habitación Roja, Lori Meyers and friends will be playing a free gig in Pl. Major. www.sonaladipu.es 24/06 Cuban rap singer Pitbull will be appearing at Valencia’s Pl. de Toros.

Café del Duende| C/ Turia, 62 (VLC) Great flamenco every Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun. www.cafedelduende.com

Sala El Loco| C/ Erudito Orellana, 12 (VLC) 16/06 For swing, the lindy hop and jazz: The Spirit of St. Louis €8 20/06 The Pretty Things & Wau Y Los Arrrghs play for €20/24.

28/06 The semi final of the road to Arenal Sound, who will make it for a spot on the big stage? €6. www.lococlub.org

LA3| C/ del Padre Porta, 4 (VLC) The best

Sala Wah Wah| C/ Campoamor, 58 (VLC) Great venue with a jam-packed schedule throughout June and into summer.

Here are just a few: 16/06 The Casters €5 19/06 The Blasters & Rock House €18 27/06 The Vibrators €15/ 18 www.wahwahclub.com

Music Box| C/ Pintor Zariñera, 16 (VLC) & Radio City| C/ Santa Teresa 19 (VLC) Open daily with visiting DJs and Tuesdays offer live flamenco music at Radio City 11pm €7 w. free drink. www.radiocityvalencia.com www.myspace.com/themusicboxclub

dance music and coolest DJs. Fri & Sat nights. www.la3club.com

Excuse me| C/Tomasos 14 (VLC) Two floors Café Mercedes| C/ Sueca, 27 (VLC) with a mix to keep you dancing.

One of our favourite venues for jazz and a number of other styles of music.

17/06 Jam Session €FREE 21/06 Malayuna €8 24/06 Lupe En Copacabana €8 28/06 Acceso Directo €8 www.cafemercedes.es

Pop Club Deluxe| C/ Poeta Mas y Ros, 42 (VLC) Pop Club Deluxe - Intimate setting for live music.

Mya| Popular dance club down at the Arts and Sciences buildings.

Ubik| C/ Literato Azorín, 13 (VLC) Book Xtra Large Playground| Av Germanias readings, films, intercambios and music.

They’ll also be doing a percussion workshop for children on Sats in May (€5).

21. New buzzing dancefloor in Ruzafa.

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Sala Mirror| San Vicente Martir, 200 (VLC)

Low Cost Festival| Alicante 27-29/7 €50,

Dance music lovers and DJs. 22/06 French-Canadian band Simple Plan 9:30pm. €tbc www.discomirror.es

El Palau de la Musica| (VLC) Beautiful VIP €125 Kasabian, Suede www.lowcostfestival.es classical music but not always open to non-members.

15/06 Lawrence Foster & Orquesta de Valencia €25/19/13, 19/06 Miyeon Lee (piano) €15, 20/06 Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra €FREE (limited tickets). www.palaudevalencia.com

Jimmy Glass| C/ Baja, 28 (VLC) In the continued celebration of the arrival of spring Jimmy Glass will have a few extra special acts on over the next few weeks.

15/06 Piano Duo Sessions €4 19/06 Sara Serpa Quintet €13 (reservation) Durango| C/ Llanterners 35, Poligono 26/06 Jorge Pardo €17 La Closa (Meliana) Heavier rock club.

29/06 Piano Duo Sessions €4 16/06 Monolith Fest. €5 www.jimmyglassjazz.net 23/06 Little Caeser €tbc 20/07 The Delta Saints €tbc Black Note Valencia| Calle Polo www.durangoclub.es y Peyrolon, 15 (VLC) From Jazz to latino sounds. Mon - Jam sessions, Thurs - Sex & Rock City| Tavernes Blancas. Rock.

Rock & Roll (beer discounts). 19/06 Nasty 22/06 Jose Andrëa (ex-Mago de Oz). €10/14 23/06 Sitchtense & Clockwork & Exodia €8/ 12 Boogie 23/06 Radio Kaos 27/06 Indie Session 29/06 Patraix Blues Band Jam 29/06 Dünedain & Edhellen & Raven’s Gate 30/06 Uncle Son 06/07 Follow That Dream €12/ 15 & CD www.valenciarockcity.com (Elvis Tribute). www.blacknoteclub.com Dub Club| Calle Jesus 91, (VLC) Dub Sala Matisse| C/ Campoamor, 60 (VLC) Club's motto is 'to play music and not noise'.

Lots of great music. www.salamatisse.es And if you like reggae and ska then you will La Caverna| C/ Cuenca, 70 (VLC) A very agree. cosy venue with mad gigs! www.myspace.com/dubclubvalencia

Benicassim| 12-15/7 Bob Dylan, Stone Roses, Florence & The Machine, New Order, Noel Gallagher, Dizzee Rascal, David Guetta & www.fiberfib.com De La Soul. €165 BBK Live | Bilbao 12-14/07 Radiohead, The Cure, Klaxons & Snow Patrol. 3 day incl camping €105 www.bilbaobbklive.com Arenal sound | Burriana 2-5/8 Two Door Cinema Club, The Kaiser Chiefs, Love of Lesbian, The TingTings, Lori Meyers & The www.arenalsound.com Wombats. €30 Azkena Music Festival | Bilbao 2325/06 Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynrd, The Dropkick Murphy's, Blue Oyster Cult. €102 www.azkenarockfestival.com

Rototom Sunsplash | Benicassim 1622/08 All things Reggae-tinged. €60/2 days, www.rototom.com €150/ full week

29/06/1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia by stabbing him until his entrails hung out. Guseva supposedly screamed, "I have killed the antichrist!". She hadn't.

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tart your engines| 22-24 June You might be forgiven for thinking that a swarm of angry bees are invading the city.

In fact, it's the noise from the engines of some of the fastest cars on earth as The Formula 1 European Grand Prix comes to town once again.

This is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years in the sport's history and with Fernando Alonso up there at the top of the drivers championship you can expect a lot of home support for him to win here at the race track down at the marina.

From 2013 the Spanish Grand Prix will alternate between Barcelona and Valencia so after this year the next time the spectacle will be in town is in 2014.

Tickets from www.valenciastreetcircuit.com.

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Valencia Club de Basket finished 4th in the domestic league and lost out in the end of season play-offs at the semi-final stage. They also reached the final of the EuroCup. Let's hope all the teams can build on this next season!

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Use sunscreen and avoid sunburn estimating adequate hydration.

Use common sense - Sunburn decreases your ability to - Monitoring urine volume Avoid hot foods, alcohol and output and colour. A large amount cool yourself and causes fluid loss. of light coloured, diluted urine Use sun block with SPF 15 or higher. heavy foods that increase your probably means you are hydrated; Wear a hat that provides shade and core temperature. If you feel any dark coloured, concentrated urine allows ventilation. headaches, fatigue or irritability or probably means you are dehydrated.

Acclimatise to the heat notice your exercise performance - Weighing yourself before and You will have a greater tolerance decreasing, stop exercising and cool off. after exercise. Any weight lost is likely for exercise in the heat if you become from fluid, so try to drink enough to accustomed to it slowly over one to Remember, it is much easier to replenish those losses. Any weight two weeks. Avoid exercise during the prevent heat illness than to treat it gain could mean you are drinking hottest time of day; train closer to once symptoms develop. more than you need. sunrise or sunset.

30/06/1859 Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. On a subsequent crossing he pushed a wheelbarrow containing a small stove then proceeded to light a fire and cook an omelette while suspended on the rope.

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Carolin Bratt | Naturally green

Brandy De Roque | Jungle cat

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Ana Candela | The long and complicated green way

Tony James | A bugs life

Lorna Carmichael | Men in rice

Martin Dockerill | Aranjuez, Toledo

Please send 1 photo per person & only send your own photo for copyright reasons. There are other terms and conditions - email us for them. Next month’s topic is 'summer’. Look forward to seeing your pictures. invlceditor@ gmail.com 24/06/1374 A sudden outbreak of St. Vitus Dance causes thousands of people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. No-one knows why.

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A Visit From The Goon Squad - This year’s Pulitzer Prize judges were unable to select a winner for fiction due to the lack of a majority vote. David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Karen Russell’s Swamplandia and Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams all received equal votes for the first time since 1977. This meant trailing back to last year’s winner Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From The Goon Squad.

This ‘novel’ consists of 13 short stories, many of which were published beforehand in The New Yorker and Harper’s, but involve the same cast of characters.

An occasional peripheral character in one story soon becomes the protagonist of another later in another. What is interesting is how Egan deals with time and the cruelty with which she lavishes it on her characters and then takes it away. A golden Adonis, successful, over-sexed and with his own record company appears in one story copping blow jobs at a rock concert can later be found dying a slow undignified death on a hospital bed. Time is the ‘goon’ throughout Egan’s stories and manages to sneak up on everyone in the end.

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seems almost enviable when she has admitted that she writes all of her fiction by hand and completely spontaneously rather than planned out in a meticulous way. One of the exceptions probably being the chapter which is merely a series of slides in a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation which shows her at her most experimental and, despite online complaints, is NOT too difficult to read on a Kindle.

V.S. Naipaul’s recent comments about female writers being unadventurous were obviously made without reading this.

Whether ‘novel’ or ‘book of short stories,’ whether ‘postmodern’ or ‘post-post-modern’ (I kid you not – check out the Wall Street Journal’s review), the result is a very interesting and very well crafted book that deserves the accolades and is well worth a look if you’re interested in the different possible forms of the modern novel. Egan herself has claimed that Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and The Sopranos inspired the book. The rights for the book have already been bought by HBO and filming has already started.

The book centres on the US music industry, particularly record executive Bernie Salazaar and his former assistant Sasha. It’s the perfect platform to show time at its cruellest as passing trends come and go, leaving many on the scrap heap as those on the top Goon Squad was try to hold on to their highlighted as one of the success. Although I read the novel books of the year for 2011 amongst "I’m going to mix it up a Guardian & Evening Standard readers. in my usual conventional way – from beginning to end, it would It reached number 2 on amazon. little bit more" not be difficult to read the stories co.uk amongst readers’ most popular themselves in any order without the main idea losing any books and has certainly put Egan centre stage in the world of literature. Next up? Egan has been reading about the of its resonance. Egan’s jumps in time allow for this kind women who worked on and repaired ships during WWII of unorthodoxy and the fact that each story can stand on and that moment when the US became a superpower. It’s its own is perhaps a testament to the impressiveness of this novel as a whole. Especially in a world tied down by been billed as an historical novel, but the author promises conventional linear narratives, which Egan manages to not just to have it set in the past. “That doesn’t work for do without. Time, instead, is lateral rather than linear. me. I’m going to mix it up a little bit more,” she said in a Egan’s prose is concise, her stories are tight and this recent interview for The Observer. Let’s hope she does.

Bikes| The monthly bike meeting of VLC will take place as usual on the first Friday of the month. This aims to promote bikes and bike safety in VLC. Place| Plaza de la Virgin, VLC Time| 7.30pm

02/07/1964 US President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

Initially viewed as weak the Act was bolstered by later pieces of legislation.

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This Must Be The Place| (Paolo Sorrentino, 2011) Sean Penn, Frances McDormand & Judd Hirsch You’ve probably seen the posters for this one already – Sean Penn in full goth get up looking old and tired. It’s a bit scary really. Cheyenne (Penn) is a retired rock star, who goes in search of his father’s Nazi persecutor.

The journey begins after Cheyenne arrives at his father’s deathbed too late after 30 years of estrangement where he finally becomes aware of the true extent of his father’s humiliation.

This sends him on a journey of self-discovery and redemption as he hunts down Aloise Muller (Hirsch). The premise of the film obviously lends itself to the bizarre and often downright hilarious as Cheyenne comes into contact with a wide variety of often bewildered people along the way.

Yelmo - 20:00 Babel - 16:30, 18:45 & 22:45

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Men in Black III| (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012) Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones & Josh Brolin When I found out they were making another one of these, I simply could not contain my excitement.

Tommy Lee Jones playing Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith playing Will Smith and that ‘hilarious’ pit bull with the funny voice. How were they ever going to beat the first two?

Well, it’s already grossed over $70m in the US and looks set to take the world by storm at the box office with the help of a number of likeminded people. This time round J (Smith) & K (Jones) go back in time and come across a young J (Brolin), who is the target of an alien assassination. As an aside check out the youtube video of Will Smith slapping a Ukrainian reporter trying to kiss him at the premiere.

Brilliant!

Yelmo - (2D) 20:00 & 22:15 (3D) 17:45 & 00:30 Kinepolis - 17:00, 19:30, 22:00 & 00:30

Dark Shadows| (Tim Burton, 2012) Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer & Eva Green Collinsport, Maine – 1752: Barnabas Collins (Depp) is the master of Collinwood manor. He has money, power & a playboy lifestyle.

That’s until he makes the mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Green) – a witch who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. Collinsport, Maine – 1972: his former estate is in ruin and his descendents have fared no better so it’s up to the young vampire Barnabas to set things right again by bringing the Collins family back on track.

But, true to form, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that, Angelique is determined to have her revenge unless she can have him.

Yelmo: 17:45, 20:05, 22:20 & 00:35 Kinepolis: 17:00, 19:30, 22:00 & 00:30

Sons of the Clouds - The Last Colony| (Álvaro Longoria, 2012) Narrated, produced by and starring Javier Bardem and older brother Carlos Bardem – this documentary explores the ‘colonisation’ of the Western Sahara.

Being a former Spanish colony, this part of the Sahara is largely occupied by Morocco with over 200,000 Sahrawi people living in refugee camps in a state of exile.

The conflict came about around thirty years ago with the end of Franco’s reign and the peaceful taking back of the Western Sahara by Morocco.

Many claim (including the filmmakers) that this was the birthplace of the Arab Spring and tie the causes to the Realpolitik of the West.

Babel - 20:30

Filmoteca, Pl. del Ayuntamiento, 17 www.filmoteca.es Yelmo Cines, Av. Tirso de Molina, 16, www.yelmocines.es Babel, C/ Vicente Sancho Tello, 10, www.cinesalbatrosbabel.com Kinepolis, Av. de Francisco Tomás y Valiente, Paterna www.kinepolis.es

03/07/2006. A dark day for Valencia. 43 people are killed when a metro train derails between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations. Twenty-one of the victims were from Torrent. The train was travelling at twice its normal speed when it crashed.

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he quotation says a lot about this incredible invention called the 'bicycle' which in my opinion is the symbol for the 'Post Oil Age' or the 'New Era' which is coming into being in these turbulent times. It is taking the place of the symbol par excellence of the age of oil - the car. More than any other thing, the car represents the madness of the oil age, such as the wanton waste of resources, the contamination of our environment, and the negative effects it has had on our health and daily lives. Switching to the bike is important for the reasons given below by my fellow cyclists but it is also symbolic in its simplicity, minimum use of resources, its cleanliness and its affordabiity.

Eduard "My name is Eduard H. and I am from the Czech Republic. I have used my bike every day from the first day I arrived in Valencia for many different reasons.

First, it is the cheapest means of transport. Second, it is the fastest transport through the city as you don't have to spend your life in traffic jams and you don't have to find parking. Third, no smog, no smell.

Fourth, there were never so many girls telling me how sexy my legs were since I started riding a bike. And many more reasons...

In my country I didn't use a bike maybe because there is nothing similar to Valenbici and thanks to Valenbici I started biking. Now I have my own second-hand bike and when I return to my city I will try to find one, too.

Unfortunately in my city there are many hills so the cycling won't be as easy as in Valencia.

Sometimes I feel very sad looking at all the cars made to transport 5 people, but all of them with only one driver.

This system needs a change. Also the constant making of new cars every year instead of reusing the old ones does not help either. Eco-friendly cars are the biggest joke, making one makes more pollution then driving the old one for decades."

Joan "I had my first bike when I was five or six. I lived in Benifaraig, 4km from Valencia, surrounded by orange groves and dirt roads.

I discovered the freedom offered by the bike and the satisfaction I got from it. My friends and I stayed out all day and went in search of 'adventure'. At fifteen I started visiting the 'big city' and rediscovered the bike.

Cycling between all those cars and buses, the pleasure I got getting to move between them when they were all stuck in traffic jams or at traffic lights was amazing. How can there be so many people who do not see the wonder of the bike?

More economical and ecological, more comfortable, easier, more efficient ... we have always believed that having a car is to be its slave. You can never really do with it what you could do with a bike.

I lived in Madrid for two years, and despite the weather and especially the terrain I continued to use the bike whenever I could. But I find that Valencia is a city 'for' bikes.

Pretty good weather all year round and no hills! A 'small' city, in which everything is within a half hour of cycling, maximum. We would not change our bikes for anything in the world, it is not just some scrap and two wheels, it is our freedom and our way of life. For us the greatest invention of mankind."

Joan of "La Petite Planethe", C/ San Fernando, 4 bajo.

Declan Lehane A little goes a long way What| Wash your clothes when they need it, not just because you have worn them once or twice.

Why| You'll reduce your bills & save water.

Why not| Your clothes are dirty!

Benefits| All water needs to be cleaned by using less water you'll save on energy and chemicals that are needed to do this.

04/07/1826 Second and third US President's John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on this day. Co-incidentally it was also the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence which both men had signed.

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k, so it's getting very hot again. Time to prepare a quick, refreshing and tasty picnic and head outside to one of the many parks of Valencia.

This month we’ll mix tastes from different countries: Greek salad, spiced up broad beans (also known as flava beans) and – optional – some Spanish boquerones. To keep things simple, you can use frozen broad beans or ones from a tin or jar. Boquerones out of a plastic bag will also do. But if you've got plenty of time, head to one of Valencia's splendid indoor markets and get everything fresh. The Mercado Central is of course very well known, but why not try out another one, like Mercado de Ruzafa?

Go there before lunchtime and you'll find the best produce.

Boquerones are very tasty and their saltiness will do you some good after another sweaty Spanish day. You can buy them pre-prepared in almost all the supermarkets here.

Ever better tasting are the ones you get at the deli’s at the Mercados: these tend to be darker, bigger and a bit more pricey. But worth it. Of course you can also get fresh ones at the Mercado and clean them yourselves. It’s not difficult: cut off the heads, carefully slice the fishies lengthwise and remove the fishbone. Ask your fishmonger if you want more details.

What to buy| Salad 1 sm. cucumber (pepino) 2 tomatoes A handful of cherry tomatoes 1/2 red pepper 1 sm. pointy green pepper 1/2 red onion A handful of black olives A block of feta cheese A handful of fresh parsley and/or mint or other fresh green herbs, chopped Olive oil (Balsamic) vinegar Salt & pepper 1/2 lemon

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What to buy| Beans 300g broad (flava) beans (more if you buy fresh) 125ml non sweetened Greek yoghurt A glug of olive oil 1/2 red onion, chopped Salt & pepper A heaped teaspoon of cumin seeds A teaspoon of crushed coriander seeds

Wow Factor| Summertime and the living is easy Effort| Nothing to worry about.

How to make the beans| one Drain and rinse the beans if you use ones from a tin or jar. Defrost them if you use frozen ones. If you use fresh ones: pod them and blanche them in boiling water for 2 Eat with some bread and definitely some nice cold minutes and then plunge them in a bowl of cold (preferably drinks. I recommend a nice white Laderas wine from the cooperative of Villar de Arzobispo. You can buy the wine in iced) water to stop the cooking process. two Put the beans in a small bowl. the co-op and in a lot of supermarkets. It's scandalously three Combine the chopped onion with the beans. cheap and awfully good! four Add the yoghurt, a glug of olive oil and some salt Cantina Marina and pepper. www.cantinamarinacatering.blogspot.com five Add the cumin and crushed coriander. six Stir well, cover and keep in the fridge.

How to make the salad| one Mix 3 tablespoons of olive oil, one small tablespoon of (balsamic) vinegar and a little squeeze of lemon with some salt and pepper in a bowl. two Cut the cucumber, tomatoes and onion into little cubes and slice the cherry tomatoes in half. three Add all this to the bowl and mix well. four Slice the peppers into little rings and add this to the mix together with the olives. five Stir everything well and place the feta on top. six Use your scissors to cut the fresh herbs above this all. seven Keep covered in your fridge until setting off for your picnic.

05/071937 Spam (SPiced hAM), the luncheon meat, is seen for the first time. 7 billion cans have been sold! A Monty Python sketch in 1970 used the name as a byword for ubiquitous & inescapable - leading to 'spam' emailing.

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Recipe | Greek Salad & spiced up broad beans

Artist of the month | Leanne de Guerrero

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e want to support new and up-and-coming artistic talent in the Valencian Community. Each month we choose one artist at random and devote a page to that artist. name | Leanne de Guerrero location | Godelleta history | Leanne learnt origami living in Japan more than 20 years ago and has loved it ever since.

what's available | Beautiful, hand-made, everlasting flowers and bouquets. The flowers can be personalized and made from many different types of paper, or created with a specific colour or design.

inspiration| Nature produces the most wonderful flowers, these provide the inspiration, and then a touch of something different is added. prices| Start from €2,50 for a single rose.

web| www.facebook.com/paper.flowers.valencia email| paperflowersvalencia@hotmail.com

If you, or anyone you know, would like to feature in our art pages, contact us at invlceditor@gmail.com

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Art to see

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" For... first artists, the native people, art was not only of a functional nature, but also linked to their concepts of religion and the relationship of man to his environment." James J. Kurtz Consumerism and abandonment. Impact of man on his environment.

(La Nau Centre Cultural until 30th Sept) The Salton Sea is part of the Colorado River Delta and permanent home to a vast array of flora and fauna, as well as a welcome wetland stopover for desert-weary travellers and migrant birds alike. However, in place of the sparkling blue waters and flocks of dazzling pink pelicans (or any of the other almost 400 bird species) I had expected to see, I was met with a stark reminder that, indeed, all that glistens is not gold. Neither the glinting scales of dead fish nor the gleaming salt crystal encrusted shorelines, and certainly not the broken glass or exposed metalwork of dilapidated motels as documented by this hard-hitting photographic exhibition.

Where each of the 22 interestingly composed photographs depicts the ruination of the ‘sea’, they similarly allude to nature’s impact and to the more sinister causes of its very apparent ill health. Science aside, suffice to say that this quantum soup is now way too salty. And the upshot? No plants = no oxygen; no oxygen = no fish; no fish = no birds…

Sunsets captured so beautifully by photographer, Emilio Andres Codina, are juxtaposed with the fossilised remains of once-upon-a-time luxury trailers and other artefacts from when ‘consumer choice’ (read ‘voracity’) and societal progress (read exploitation) were in their infancy, and where the perception of the big bad wolf was only to be found in fairytales.

La Nau, Centre Cultural de la Universitat de Valencia, C/ Universitat, 2 | 963 98 34 69 Tues-Sat: 10am-2pm, 4pm-8pm, Sundays/holidays 10am-2pm| www.uv.es | Free!

Feasible Utopias (IVAM until 16th September) On entering the exhibition, I reckon I’m going to have some difficulties in writing this arts article even though the subject matter is very, very familiar. After all, I’ve thought/talked/written/read about every aspect of human dignity, equality and justice on so many occasions that I really feel that I have nothing more to say because there is nothing new to say. Correspondingly, I refuse to believe that at the 2000 General Assembly of the United Nations there weren’t delegates pulling their hair out at the thought of, yet again, articulating a series of aims and objectives which would improve the lives of global citizens and protect the environment, only to see them unfailingly and flagrantly disregarded by everyone and anyone from clothing retailers to internationally recognised governments.

So, am I suggesting we duly ignore the exhibition on the basis of “Yeh, yeh, tell me something I don’t already know.” Absolutely not. In fact, I think this exhibition is incredibly well structured and its content so perfectly weighted by concentrating as much on what has been achieved in the last 12 years as on what still needs to be done that it is worth more than a single visit. The Millennium Development Goals are simple and the exhibition’s accompanying images, text and insightful audiovisuals remind us that those from far harsher climates, with skin tones a whole lot darker than my own and swollen bellies; not from over indulgence but abject hunger; remain at the front lines of poverty and injustice. I realise that my initial cynicism in terms of the familiarity of this subject is reprehensible and pledge to focus on what others are doing and have done in the name of justice in contrast with what, to my shame, I have not.

ML IVAM, C/ Quevado, Guillem de Castro 118 | 96 386 30 00 | Tues-Sun: 10am-8pm | www.ivam.es | Free!

"Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food." Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes 06/07/1295 Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called 'Auld Alliance', against England. The treaty stipulated that if either country was attacked by England, the other country would invade English territory. It was in place until 1560.

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Charity |

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Our decision to set up on our own not only gives us the autonomy to support great projects like El Preventorio but also to get our hands dirty ourselves. Here in Valencia we are planning to open a Volunteer Tutoring Centre. Based on a very successful American model the idea is to harness the good will and expertise of volunteers to provide one on one tutoring to disadvantaged kids.

With the economy where it is and the stuttering education system, many who can afford it are sending their kids to academies in order to give their kids the best possible chance for the future. But, what of kids whose families can’t afford to do this? Research shows that 40 hours of one-on-one coaching can help a kid jump a full year of school.

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t has taken us a while but the Create for Children charity project is ready to go. What started last July with a, what if, conversation and a blank page is now a legitimate functioning charity. Our goal is to support and develop projects, which benefit children.

We have been working with a children’s home in Real de Gandia, called El Preventorio Infantil since October and have provided them with cash and many basic necessities.

As they receive no regular funding, our goal is to provide them with 50% of their running costs for the coming year so that they can take the residence to capacity and get some kids off the waiting list. This means hiring staff to help the three sisters in residence in the mornings and afternoons as well as allowing them to plan a little bit for the future.

The initial goal with El Preventorio was to get them through some tough times where there was an immediate need for such basics as cleaning products and clothes for the kids but with a more substantial donation we can go beyond that.

This project needs collaborators to be successful and advocacy will be key. We have already developed partnerships in the business and academic world, we have held talks at schools about charity and children in poverty and we are only getting started. We believe there is a lot of good will in the community so we want to Create opportunities for people to make a positive contribution and so Create a better future for kids who have had a tough start.

As a first big fund raiser we are doing El Camino de Santiago this summer. Tony Little and his wife Elena are leading a team from Gijón on the 320kms to Santiago de Compostela and we will then be assembling teams from Valencia and farther afield to join them on August 1st to walk the last 100km to Santiago.

We hope to raise €15,000 from this event, which will go to El Preventorio and help set up the Tutoring Centre. If you would like to participate, sponsor one of the team or just find out more information, please visit our webpage, www.createforchildren.com or search for Create for Childen on Facebook.

Eoghan Ryan

Quite simply, the kids need more attention and the sisters need help. When you spend time with the kids the need for personal contact and individual attention is painfully obvious. With the best will in the world the sisters and teachers can’t provide that in the current circumstances.

25/06/1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the 1st time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

It had six colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. Indigo presumably was the token straight one in the rainbow!

Child-friendly cocktails

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hen it's this hot staying cool is not just nice but pretty much an essential. There's a good chance that when you are hosting a party during the summer either you or your friends will have some kids. So instead of them missing out with a standard soft drink why not treat them to one of these outstanding child friendly cocktails that also provide some leeway for that special adult ingredient at the end of production!

one Frozen Watermelon Mint Virgin Daiquiris 4 cups (2 cm cubes) seedless watermelon 1 cup of water 1/2 cup mint syrup (see recipe below) 1/2 cup fresh lime juice Freeze watermelon.

Combine frozen watermelon cubes in a blender with 1 cup of water, 1/2 cup of mint syrup and 1/2 cup of lime juice.

Serve with a sprig of mint.

Mint syrup recipe: Heat 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of packed fresh mint leaves in a saucepan over a medium heat.

Bring it to a boil, and stir to dissolve the sugar. Once the sugar is dissolved, strain what's left through a sieve and let cool.

two Frobscottle - Roald Dahl's BFG's favourite.

8 peeled kiwi fruits Juice of 1 1/2 limes 120 ml of raspberry yogurt 240 ml lemonade 360 ml cream soda Blend the kiwis, lime juice and yogurt until smooth.

Strain through a sieve. (Some of the kiwi seeds might get through, but they'll add texture.)

Stir in the lemonade.

Pour in the cream soda.

Serve immediately to preserve the fizz and to keep it from curdling.

three Mock Pink Champagne 120 ml chilled cran-apple juice 120 ml chilled white grape juice 300 ml chilled ginger ale Combine ingredients and stir gently.

Serve in champagne flutes.

For an added touch of elegance, float a strawberry or frozen raspberry in each glass.

Serves 4 Serve in champagne flutes.

Serves 4 Serve in large cocktail glass.

Serves 4 Serve in a stemmed glass.

Simple cream soda: 1 - Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in 1 cup of water in a saucepan.

Bring to boil. When it clears, take it off the heat and cool for 5 minutes.

2 - Stir in a tablespoon of vanilla extract. Now you have the syrup.

3 - Chill in the refrigerator.

4 - Mix some syrup with carbonated water and ice to taste.

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Animals | Bioparc Valencia

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nimal parks have come a long way since the London Zoological Gardens opened for scientific study in 1828. Originally termed zoos, this is short for 'zoological garden' and refers to zoology, the study of animals, a term deriving from the Greek 'zδon' which is 'animal' and 'lógos' which means 'study'.

Recently, in an attempt to distance their institutions from the stereotypical and nowadays criticized zoo concept of the 19th century, park owners coined new terms for zoos such as 'conservation park' or 'biopark'. The term 'biopark' for example was first developed by the National Zoo in Washington DC in the late 1980s.

In 2008 Valencia Bioparc rose like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of the old Valencia Zoo with many of the animals from the old zoo moving there when it opened. It's located in the old Turia riverbed and is one of the largest in Europe consisting of over 4,000 animals and covering 100,000 square metres. The Bioparc specialises in African nature. The original plan was that the African element would be the first of three main sections in the park with Asian and South American sections to be added later on although it's hard to see that happening any time soon.

As well as the animals there, great care has been taken in reproducing African ecosystems, including flora and fauna native to the region.

The concept of the zoo, called 'Zooimersion', consists of immersing visitors into the animals' habitat and not vice versa. This is achieved by using rivers, ponds, streams and rocks to separate visitors from the animals and not the traditional railings and cages which are common in many zoos. While the Bioparc has not managed to completely cancel out the feel of the old style zoos - some cages are too small given the normal roaming distances of some of the wild animals housed there, it does do a great job of getting you up close and personal with a lot of the inhabitants.

Foster/ permanent homes URGENTLY required Name| Jack Age| 3 months Size| Med/large Appearance| Mixed with some German Shepherd Personality| Happy, friendly to all Health| Puppy vaccinated Info| P.E.P.A - 650 304 746 www.pepaspain.com So if you do have an issue with zoos maybe it's time to make that trip to the Bioparc. It does provide an excellent day out for those who want to go on a bit of a safari without actually having to get to the Serengeti. Parents with children should definitely take advantage of the park as it's not every day that you can get up close and personal with an elephant or a lion.

The park is divided into 4 main areas: Savanah| in which you Madagascar| which will find lions, elephants, features a large selection hyenas, rhinos, ostriches of lemurs and the catand zebras. like fossa (the largest carnivore on the island).

Equatorial Africa| which houses leopards, gorillas Wetlands| where and monkeys. crocodiles and hippos pass a lot of their time.

Prices are €22 for a day pass for an adult and €17 for a child but if you live here annual passes (allowing unlimited entry) are €51 for adults and €39 for children with cheaper options available (with some restrictions).

09/07/1922 Original Hollywood 'Tarzan', Johnny Weissmuller, swims the 100m freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. The world record is now 46.91 seconds. Will it be broken in the Summer?

Events & Classifieds

Rastros | Montroy | 1 July, 5 Aug (1st Sun monthly)| C/ La Pau, 625 674 906 Sagrario Masia | 16 June, 21 July (3rd Sat monthly * Note day change!) Mas Pavia Restaurante, nr Monserrat. Eng 625819734/ Spa 616399372, sparklesinsunshine@gmail.com.

Events & networking groups| Zodiac| June 30th Duo Zodiac will be at Bellamy's Bar, Lliria. Contact Carol for more information. 962 728 368 Cooking friends| New group who meet, cook and eat. In one evening you will be cooking a dish, have dinner in 3 different houses and meet 12 new people. Great way to meet new people and have fun. www.cookingfriends.es IWC| Monthly coffee mornings. An independent organisation offering: Support, Friendship, networking... 5 July, NO MEETING IN AUGUST!. Hipercor - C.Comercial Ademuz, Av. Pio XII, 51 VLC, top floor restaurant. www.iwc-valencia.ning.com 2nd Friday lunch| 14 July A get together group for lunch and chat. 2pm.

The venue changes. mm@centralpoint.es.

Internations events| A monthly meet up of international people. www.internations.org

Lliria | 14 July, 11 Aug (2nd Sat monthly) | Bellamy's Bar, 18 Avenida Polideportivo, Domeño, Tables free. 962728368, Lyn 625217777 magpiesbar@yahoo.com

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Markets | Mon-Montroy, Tues-Monserrat & Turis, Weds-L’Eliana Piccassent & Villamarchante, Thurs-Alaquas & Lliria, Fri-Moraira, Turis, Torrente & Chiva, Sat-Real de Montroy & Torrente, Sun-Alborache

Race for life thanks| Race for Life 2012.

On May 5th Bellamy's Bar and friends completed a 10K walk around Domeno and the local area. They all managed to finish and even a couple of men joined the ladies.

Together they raised €1340.86 (with more money to come in)! Combined with last years this makes over £3000 English pounds For Cancer Research UK! Congratulations to everyone who got involved, either by joining in on the walk or by sponsoring those who did!

Games Cryptograms have a hidden quote but every letter of the alphabet has been changed. Start with 1, 2 & 3 letter words. Remember the most common letters in the English language are E-T-A-I-O-N. In Sudoku, every row & column of 9 numbers & 3x3 box must include all digits 1-9 in any order.

Cryptogram

JF JW IXWWJMCP FX CXUP VXDK SKJPOYW, VXDK AXBIPFJFXKW, TOY PUPO VXDK POPBJPW. JF JW QTKY, MJFFPKCV QTKY, MDF RQPKP JW T CXOZ YJWFTOAP MPFGPPO QTKY TOY JBIXWWJMCP. - HERBERT WELSH

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