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…
Author: Alan
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…