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Wine Group visit Bodegas Bleda – June 2024
The serried ranks of vines, straighter than even the Irish Guards at the Trooping of the Colour, greeted us as we arrived at Bodegas Bleda in Jumilla. Rows and rows of vines stretched into the distance in all directions around the immaculate Bodega with not a weed to be seen anywhere. The day long visit…
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U3A DINING OUT GROUP DINNER MAY 2024
By popular request we made a second visit to Restaurante Costa Marco on 14th May. Every dish was attractively displayed and served by the helpful, smiling staff for whom nothing was too much trouble. As the evening progressed, and people chatted with friends old and new, the room was buzzing with laughter and many were…
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Wine Tasting – May 2024
The dynamic duo, Franco and Domingo, rounded off the wine tasting season for the Moraira-Teulada U3A with a selection of superb wines from Valdepeñas. There was a brisk trade in the six Corcovo wines offered for tasting, unsurprising given the new tasting term will not open until the autumn. Domingo, boss of the family run…
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Jordan April 2024
On Saturday 13th April, a group of intrepid U3A Moraira Teulada Travel Group members set off by plane our flight for Jordan led by Coral. Arriving in Amman, late that evening, we were greeted with the news that ours was the last flight in, as the Airspace was being closed. Were we facing an indefinite…
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Wine Tasting – April 2024
Wines for our April tasting were presented by Raquel from Bodegas Castaño in Yecla. Unfortunately, we were unable to host the evening due to personal circumstances but, from the photos, it looks that you were all having a great time and enjoying the lovely wines from this bodega. We would like to thank Carol and…
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Visit to Huerto Ribera – 13th March
A second group of U3A Moraira-Teulada members visited Huerto Ribera on Wednesday 13th March. A typical Valencian orange grove from 1870 in Carcaixent, approximately 35 km from Valencia.
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Healthy Walking report February 2024
All planned walks are checked a few days before they take place. Roads may be closed, gates locked or paths become unsuitable. The lovely walk round the hill above Lliber was considered too unstable for walkers to walk safely so the first February walk was changed to what is called ‘The Zoo Walk’ which passes…
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Wine Tasting – March 2024
56 ‘winos’ (I believe this is the collective noun for a group of Wine Tasters and the Oxford English Dictionary will be adding it to their list in the new addition) turned up for this regular great social event, including 11 newbies. I briefly met many of them as I cruised the tables to say…
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Wine Group visit Casa Sicilia – February 2024
Rose bushes stand guard over the rows of vines at Casa Sicilia, which was visited by the Moraira-Teulada U3A wine tasting group on 1st February 2024. Up before dawn, on the coach by 8.30 a.m., 53 group members made the 90 minute journey down the motorway to Alicante and on to the Bodega, tucked away down…
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Orange Grove Trip 17 Jan 2024
On Wednesday 17 January 53 members visited Huerto Ribera https://www.huertoribera.com/ in Carcaixent, which is 40kms inland from Valencia. The Huerto was founded in 1870 and the magnificent house built for the family is still in fabulous condition and occupied by them today. We were welcomed with coffee, tea, cake and biscuits and then treated to…
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Wine Tasting Group Christmas Meal – December 2023
The Moraira-Teulada U3A Wine Tasting Group celebrated their last event of 2023 with a Christmas meal at the new SAEN Restaurant (formerly known as Satari’s) in Moraira. Festive lights greeted us as we entered the restaurant and, after a welcome drink on arrival, 63 diners were served a traditional Christmas meal. The vino was already…
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Wine Tasting – November 2023
“I thought I’d do a Christmas Advert, like they’re doing on the telly and online.I can sell ‘Corcovo Image,’ Domingo, Franco and their wine!We were greeted by The Legend that is Franco, in his Slogan tee,He bought it for a fee, from a pop up ad on Facebook.Well I think I’m a legend also… I’ll…