Hotels in Granada – Hostels in Granada – Flights to Granada Guadix is a beautiful town an hour east of Granada, which we visited on our trip back to Valencia. (It’s also the home of the pyrotechnic company who put on the March 2nd Mascletà — the only non-Valencian company invited, and did they impress!) [...]

We took my dad, a lifelong fan of Hemingway, to his first bullfight on the last day of Fallas, squeezing into the stadium’s tiny bench seats as best we could. Next to us, a couple of gray-haired Spanish ladies sat gossiping; in front of us, a rowdy group of Spanish youths smoking and eating bocadillos… [...]

Filmed with the Sanyo VPC – CS 1 (super tiny) available here: USA, UK, Deutschland and Spain After 6 years of dominance by Nou Campanar, the judges of Fallas’ "Special Section" monuments have crowned a new champion. Ladies and Gentleman, put your hands together for Convento Jerusalen. When I first heard the results, I was [...]

During the last couple days of Fallas, thousands of falleras from all over the province make a pilgrimage to Valencia’s Plaza de la Virgen to deliver flowers to Our Lady of the Forsaken, during one of the festival’s most awe-inspiring events: The Ofrenda (The Offering). You’ve never seen anything like it; traffic in the inner [...]

Filmed with the Sanyo VPC – CS 1 (super tiny) available here: USA, UK, Deutschland and Spain The Night of Fire is one of the most eagerly anticipated events during Fallas. Thousands of people gather around the Paseo de la Alameda at the ungodly hour of 1:30am on March 18th to see some of the [...]