REACT 2011 Line-Up presents many worldwide choreographers and artists like Mr. Wiggles, Lyle Beniga, Rie Hata, Mike Song, Keone Madrid, Mariel Martin, Gemini, Vinh Nguyen, Di “Moon” Zhang, Pacman, Bboy Venum, Bboy The End, Bboy Speedy, Nick Whage, Poppin’ Hood, Kulbik, Cookin’ Soul, DJ Dase Oner, Mr. West, DJ Timber and many more! Do not miss REACT 2011 in Alicante / Spain next July 15-23rd, 2011.
Spain’s third-largest city basks contentedly on the coast. Surrounded by dramatic mountains, the city boasts impressive architecture, a character-steeped old town and lively lesbian and gay bars. Shannon sees it all and takes you along for the ride.
Live in the “Plaza de Toros de Valencia” the 25.06.2004 “Reunited” Tour 2004. Rob Halford – Vocals. Glenn Tipton – Guitars. KK Downing – Guitars. Ian Hill – Bass. Scott Travis – Drums. Lyrics: I’ll be damned, here comes your ghost again But that’s not unusual It’s just that the moon is full And you decided to call And here I sit, hand on the telephone Hearing the voice I’d known A couple of light years ago Headed straight for a fall But we both know what memories can bring They bring Diamonds and Rust Yes we both know what memories can bring They bring Diamonds and Rust Now I see you standing with brown leaves all around and snow in your hair Now we’re smiling out the window of the crummy hotel over Washington Square Our breath comes in white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air Speaking strictly for me we both could’ve died then and there Now you’re telling me you’re not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You were so good with words And at keeping things vague Cause I need some of that vagueness now It’s all come back too clearly, yes, I love you dearly And if you’re offering me diamonds and rust, I’ve already paid But we both know what memories can bring They bring Diamonds and Rust Yes we both know what memories can bring They bring Diamonds and Rust Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust Diamonds, Diamonds and Rust
Live in the “Plaza de Toros de Valencia” the 25.06.2004 “Reunited” Tour 2004. Rob Halford – Vocals. Glenn Tipton – Guitars. KK Downing – Guitars. Ian Hill – Bass. Scott Travis – Drums. Lyrics: There I was completely wasting, out of work and down all inside it’s so frustrating as I drift from town to town feel as though nobody cares if I live or die so I might as well begin to put some action in my life Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law So much for the golden future, I can’t even start I’ve had every promise broken, there’s anger in my heart you don’t know what it’s like, you don’t have a clue if you did you’d find yourselves doing the same thing too Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law You don’t know what it’s like Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law
Preview of Amygz’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain and Canary Islands Entry Title: “Valencia Valencia Valencia” Entry: “The flight to Valencia from Madrid was only 1 ½ hours, we spent longer sitting at the airport waiting for our flight than we did actually on the flight! We arrived nice and early — 7.30am and were greeted by some cooler weather — think it was low 30’s but was a humid kind of heat but at least we weren’t sweating at that time of morning. We caught the metro into town — surrounded by aussies and kiwis! After a small dilemma about which direction to head from the metro exit (me saying we go right and Scott saying we go left — so we go left for about 10 -15 mins until Scott then says I never said this is the right way to go!! So we turned around and went back the other way towards the hotel… stopping along the way at a café along the way for some yummy and cheap breakfast — again the language barrier caused difficulty but we pointed to the menu and got what we had ordered this time. After checking in and showering we headed out to check out Valencia and all it had to offer, the temperature had climbed a little and it was warming up! We walked 10 mins into the city centre from our hotel and stopped at the information centre to pick up some maps then wandered the first entry point of the city — it was like …
Preview of Chunhin’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Oranges??” Entry: “Valencia is so pretty…=PI really loved just walking down the streets and admiring all the buildings and unlike massive, hectic Madrid, Valencia is much more relaxed. We didn’t get up to much in this city, mainly because there wasn’t much to do apart from wandering the streets and seeing all their churches and buildings. The Cathedral in Valencia apparently held the holy grail but when I had a look it was just a nice altar…maybe I’m missing something =P. The main plaza, Plaça de l’Ajuntament in Valencia was quite impressive and the walkways were tilled with marble! Seems like this used to be a rich city =P. The placa del Virgen near where we stayed was also very pretty and the fountain constantly covered by pigeons haha, seems like it’s quite the place to hang out…the whole square was teeming with people at 12 am one night and we even saw a group of fixies amassing in the square XD. The one thing to do in Valencia I guess is to go to the Arts and Science Museum Man that place was a lot of fun, unfortunately we only got 2 hours in there so we had to rush through a lot. But definitely worth it! The entire place is interactive and you can do all sorts of cool stuff…testing out a home of the future, measuring your jumping force, playing …
Preview of Kcassaro’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “The America’s Cup Race, Valencia, Spain” Entry: “We made it to Valencia after driving from Barcelona on the day of our arrival back into Europe. Here’s the plan: Our friend from Ibiza, Salvatore, has arranged for us to stay in a “Casa Rural” in the town of Campbell, which is inland from the beachtown of Denia, where he will meet us at the port. The town of Campell is barely on any map and is in a remote mountain overlooking Denia. Steve and I are the oldest people here. It is a sad story because the young people here move away to find more opportunity, leaving the fate of this town at risk. Anyway, why someone would renovate a country home in this town is beyond me but the results were fantastic. The Casa Rurale Ca Clara has been redone by a very talented designer where nothing was missed. It is gorgeous. He invites 2 of his lawyer friends to attend as well- Maurizio and Vincente. We plan on spending the weekend together at Ca Clara and going to Valencia where they have arranged for a boat to take us out to view the second race of the finale between the Swiss defenders, Alinghi and the New Zealand contenders, Kiwi. We meet the guys on Friday night at the port, the first day of a 3 day weekend celebrating the feast of Sant Joan( Saint John). Salvatore keeps …
Preview of Giovanna’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Valencia, Spain Entry Title: “Americas cup – Valencia” Entry: “Then on to Valencia the next day where we were meeting the flatmates, but our ferry had sold out as we were so late in arriving to book it so we had to take another ferry somewhere else and bus down, which left late, then the bus/boat both took an extra hour so we didn’t arrive there until 11pm, and all our flatmates were leaving at 6am so we had a drink with them in town and that was about it! Valencia was really nice and warm also – the first day we headed out to the Americas cup village and had a look around while nothing was happening, and had a look around the science buildings which were really funky We were all pretty shattered that night so didn’t get up to anything. The next day they was racing, so we headed back out and watched the boat go out, if we lost today’s race it would all be over, and unfortunately we did by 1 second! We need to get the bus by 4 to get to Barcelona so didn’t stuck around on to Barcelona Barcelona was ok, I had been there before with Mum but neither of the boys had been, it was raining so that wasn’t good, I followed the boys around for a bit but to the Rambla, Guids park, and the sig familia then I gave up and went back for a sleep as I had a headache, the boys went to the football stadium …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Valencia, Spain by TravelPod blogger Kdtravels titled “Valencia Fallas”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Kdtravels’s travel blog entry: “Dear All, Things have been going well in Spain. Last week was we had our first long break which was great and provided a much needed rest from classes. School is very busy which has contributed to the lack of email updates on my end. My friend Lisa visted for the entire week which was great, and another friend, Kathleen, joined us for the second part. On Saturday, March 14th, I picked Lisa up from the Airport and we went straight to the car rental place where we picked up “Daisy”, a small but tough little blue Ford car…. then hit the road to experience some European driving. I took off a little slow, trying to remember how to drive a manual car… and quickly got to experience European driving once more, lots of fun! Very few rules in Spain… the lanes kindof merge together in the towns… and people sorta stop for red lights but if the coast is clear you can go ahead… It’s the Spanish way I suppose We went to Murcia, then Cordoba, and passed through Jaen on the way home. The country side was beautiful. Daisy didn’t have an antenna so the first part was in silence… but we quickly changed that by meeting some African guys in a little random town in a little pub that sold us some burned Cds (they had quite the selection!!)… and haggled them down from the 3 for 7.50E …
Going way back in time it seems that the first ever known building to be constructed in this Castellón de la Plana area was in fact the famous Moorish castle of Fadrell situated near the Alquerías de La Plana.
Some time later the real town was officially founded in the year of 1251 and this was after the historical conquest of the Moorish Kingdom of Valencia that was done by King James I of Aragon at an earlier date in 1233.
King James I in fact then granted a royal permission to actually move the new town down from the mountain and on to the plain on the date of September 8 in 1251 Historically it now seems that tradition claims that this move was in fact completed by those that undertook this enormous task on the third Sunday of Lent in 1252.
Right throughout the Middle Ages this Castellón de la Plana city was well protected by moats around defensive walls and towers and later a new church was built which later become the city’s cathedral.
Later on in the 17th century the town became one of the very last great strongholds in the Revolta de les Germanies or “revolt of the local guilds”. And the town also was supportive of the Archduke Charles of Austria in the historical War of the Spanish Succession which ran from1701 to 1714. The city however was then taken by the troops and supporters of Philip d'Anjou.
More recently in the 19th century all of the city’s walls were taken down as it slowly began to expand beyond them and this a process which was interrupted only by the War of Independence against Napoleon which occurred from 1804 until 1814 and then again later by the Carlist Wars from 1833 up to 1863.
At the start of these wars in 1833 was the year that Castellón de la Plana became the new capital of the newly constituted province area.
Even more recently in the second half of the 19th century the city of Castellón de la Plana began to expand again even more. And this time it was marked by the arrival of a railway into the city and also included the enlargement of the city’s port area as well as the construction of some important representative buildings such as the Provincial Hospital and a Casino and the city’s Theater. Many parks were also developed at this time.
Very recently just a few years ago in 1991 a new university in Castellón de la Plana, named Jaume I University, was created and built on a new modern campus location. Today the local economy of the area is mainly based on industry and craft work.
We went to Murcia, then Cordoba, and passed through Jaen on the way home. The country side was beautiful. Daisy didn’t have an antenna so the first part was in silence… but we quickly changed that by meeting some African guys in a little random town in a little pub that sold us some burned Cds (they had quite the selection!!)… and haggled them down from the 3 for 7.50E …