Toledo 2 nights. Madrid 3 nights Friday 22nd November 2024 – Wednesday 27th November What better way to see the sites and museums of Madrid and Toledo with a little shopping as well than a 5 night trip to visit both cities.We will travel to Toledo for 2 nights to see this lovely historical city. […]
Speaker: Angela Chantry Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she nevertheless managed to thrive as an […]
4:00pm doors open, for 4:30pm start (ends 8:45pm) U3A Membership Card for entrance (free) – NO booking required Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful and has vitality. […]
This is an Open Air Shopping Centre with more than 150 shops and a wide range of leisure and catering services. The shops include C&A, PRIMEMARK, DEICHMANN, ALCAMPO, DECATHLON, LEROY MERLIN and many more.The centre has a wide range of restaurants to suit all tastes. There is a stage in the centre of the mall […]
The Wine Group Xmas meal will be held at the Hill Top Bar & Grill on Thursday, 5th December. Full details, including the menu, were sent to all group members on 8th September. We are not taking any further bookings as all details have now been finalised. wine.tasting@u3amoraira-teulada.org
Due to a cancellation, I have decided to repeat this talk, which I previously gave approximately six years ago, about my favourite artist, the lad from Bradford, David Hockney. It is a remarkable story concerning a man from a very normal background who progresses through life to become one of the best-known artists in the […]
5:30pm doors open, for 6:00pm start (ends 8:15pm) U3A Membership Card for entrance (free) – NO booking required Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) — not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, […]
Due to some problems with the A & H group loud speaker I have had to delay the scheduled talk on the History of the Automobile and replace it with The History of Natural and Man -Made Glass I first gave this talk eight years ago so, hopefully, new members will not have heard it […]
5:30pm doors open, for 6:00pm start (ends 7:55pm) U3A Membership Card for entrance (free) – NO booking required The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen […]
A day trip to Alicante Alicante is a vibrant port city about an hour and a half from Moraira by coach. We will be dropped near the elevator which goes up to the Castle of Santa Barbara. The castle opens at 10.00 am, entrance is free and the easiest access is via the elevator (free […]
Speaker: Rosalind Miranda Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, painted the world as an alienating, often vacuous place, with everyone in his works appearing terribly alone. Many of his paintings are instantly recognisable.What is less known is that his wife of 43 years, Josephine Nivison Hopper, was famous as an […]
5:30pm doors open, for 6:00pm start (ends 7:55pm) U3A Membership Card for entrance (free) – NO booking required The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from […]
Speaker: Alan Hunton Serendipity is a remarkable phenomenon which describes a most beneficial outcome achieved purely by chance. We will see that a significant number of scientific discoveries throughout history have been made by mistake; such that the intended result failed but the unintended consequence was so dramatic and useful to society that the researcher […]
5:00pm doors open, for 5:30pm start (ends 7:45pm) U3A Membership Card for entrance (free) – NO booking required The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and […]
For our first event of 2025, we are planning a day trip to Bodegas Viña Elena in Jumilla on Thursday, 13th February. This bodega has been recommended to us by one of our members and it has also recently been featured in the magazine Viajar as one of the most outstanding wineries in the region […]
