On Friday 15th November we held our AGM at Calpe Tennis Club. 49 members attended and were welcomed with complimentary coffee before the meeting. Talk was loud with lots of laughter prior to the formal part of the morning. All Committee members presented briefly on their particular responsibilities and the President gave a short report on general items. The President and committee members were approved unanimously to forge ahead with arrangements for a busy 2025. We were very sorry that Freda Croasdell was resigning as Travel Organiser following the death of her husband. Thanks were given for all her hard…
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We have now closed our Kutxabank account, so from now on, members should make any incoming payments (membership subscriptions, payments for trips, etc.) into the new Sabadell account. See the Bank Details page for more information about the new account. Kutxabank had closed its Calpe branch and relocated our account to Benidorm. Banks require two signatories for withdrawals which means making a trip to Benidorm each time and it is becoming increasingly impractical to go there to make transactions. So the committee decided to change banks to have a branch nearer to home.
On September 12th, 20 members and two guests left Calpe to join the Kontiki ferry from Alicante to Tabarca Island. We were very fortunate with the weather. Both crossings were beautifully calm and the sun shone all day. Tabarca Island is the only inhabited island in the Valencian region and is very popular with tourists during the summer months but the return to school and home for many meant that the island was comfortably vibrant without being too busy. Free time on the island and our travellers had the choice of exploring it’s historical heritage or sampling the fish dishes…
Twenty years ago, Calpe U3A set up its website. The pages, pictures and text from those days seem to have been lost. Where did they go? Before looking back at what there was in those days and what became of it, it could be useful to explain what a website is and how it works (only a hundred words or so; be patient). A website like ours consists of content (like text and pictures) and structure (articles with dates, titles, and navigation links between them). Like any other website, the U3A Calpe site’s content and structure are stored (‘hosted’) on…
16/07/2024 – Awesome Acrobatics! Not only acrobats but fire dancers, jugglers, hula hoops, cyr wheel, comical court jesters, sensational costumes, music and visual effects…. even snow…. This is the amazing show that twenty-one U3A Calpe members experienced this week at the first night of Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Alegria’ performance in Alicante. The company has a world-wide reputation as being a top entertainer and this show certainly did not disappoint! On a very warm evening we were all very pleased to take our seats inside the wonderfully cool ‘big top’. The evening hadn’t started too well, as the bus we were…
Fifteen U3A Calpe members enjoyed a guided tour of the Jardin de L’Albarda last Friday (28th June). Mostly first-time visitors, we were amazed at this hidden gem in an urbanisation near La Sella and Pedreguer. Our guide, the very well informed, humorous and patient Nicoli, led us from the splendid house through the various garden designs, each one spectacular in it’s own way, and explained the plan for the original garden and how it has been developed over the years towards the ecosystem and biodiversity that is working today. We all agreed that a follow up trip, perhaps in a…