On Sunday 19th November a coach full of U3A members travelled from Jalon to Benidorm Palace, to watch the ELO tribute concert. The tribute band members live in different places in UK, including Manchester, Bristol, Essex, & Scotland, and perform regularly also in Europe. There was a full house at Benidorm Palace, with all the tickets sold, for their one-night ELO Tribute show and the audience was ready for a night of music from the 80’s.
What do you know about Halloween?
Well, not a lot really when it came to answering Quiz questions. The questions tested our knowledge on the origins and traditions of this now much celebrated event. Even our small villages have celebrations, lights and door decorations. I think maybe even more than Christmas.
After the General Assembly business last Thursday 2nd November Candy Wright, from Help Marina Alta (HelpMA), spoke to the assembled members about living and getting older in Spain and briefly about the work that her charity does for those in need in the Marina Alta.
A warm autumn morning on Sunday 22nd October saw the Vall del Pop U3A hosted a car boot sale on the Rastro site in Jalon. As we entered we were encouraged to start with sausage in a roll and coffee – but no shopping and browsing was to be the first order of the day. As we wandered around the stalls, including clothes/china & glassware/books & games/tools & electrical items, my wife was attracted to several stalls with clothes, I found another stall selling cakes!
The Goodwill Team knew how to encourage a full house at the October General Assembly – feed the members with hot dogs. This incentive and a good speaker, Jana Petken, certainly did the trick and after the Association meeting we were enthralled by her talk.
A group from the Vall del Pop U3A has just returned from a great trip to Zaragoza, capital of Aragon, the 4th largest city in Spain. Like many of us, we have passed it on our way to and from northern Spain but following our visit we would recommend a stay in this very vibrant and interesting city.