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Wine Tasting Group Christmas Meal at Satari’s – December 2022
As is usual for this Festive time of the year, invites to dinners, parties and drinks with nibbles, stack up like a pack of cards on the mantelpiece, with the invite to the U3A Wine Tasting Group Christmas ‘Do’ being the ACE in the pack. Unbelievably, it is 3 years since the last wine tasting…
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U3A DINING OUT GROUP LUNCH AT EL CAMPO
15TH NOVEMBER 2022 Something a bit different for the Members of the Dining Out Group this month – a lunchtime event at El Campo, Benitachell where Brenda and her staff looked after us extremely well, and a good time was had by all. Bookings over the past year or so have dropped considerably in number…
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October 2022, Dining Out
at the Olive Tree restaurant in MorairaOver 50 members enjoyed the fine dining experience at the Olive Tree on the 4th and 18th of October. Sandra, Harby and their sons Sebastion and Mathew made sure the variety of food and drinks were of the highest order and all served with a smile. Judging by the animated conversations and laughter the diners…
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Ancient Egypt Lecture – 16th November 2022
The next Ancient Egypt/Ancient History lecture will be on Wednesday 16 November at La Senieta in Moraira, starting at 10:30 a.m. The topic this month is a critique of the ’18th Dynasty Exodus Theory’, which argues that the Exodus of the Israelites took place in Year 9 of Pharaoh Amenhotep II. This is the alternative…
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Let’s do Lunch – October 2022
Our Let’s do Lunch group met for the second time at Casa Toni restaurant in Moraira. This is a new U3A Moraira-Teulada ladies lunch group and, judging by the reactions of those who attended, it was very successful. The sun shone and the temperature was very pleasant so we were able to eat outside on…
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September 2022 Dining Out at A’ Cas’ e Renat’ in Moraira
After the usual summer break the Dining Out group held 2 events at the Italian Restaurant A’ Cas’ e Renat’ in Moraira during September. The restaurant sits in the heart of the town and opened earlier this year. The owners come from Naples, with Renato and his wife, head chef Maria, providing dishes typical from…
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Let’s do Lunch – finally launched!
On 27th September 2022, the Ladies Let’s do Lunch group was finally launched. We met at The Olive Tree in Moraira and 26 Ladies attended. The meal was excellent and, looking at the photos, it would appear that everyone enjoyed themselves. Several ladies were unable to attend but we hope that they will be at our…
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Art & History 2023 planned schedule
2023 9 Jan John Hopwood Antoni Gaudi, The Sagrada Familia, and many of the other buildings designed by this amazing architect 23 Jan Rosalind Miranda Mouth and Foot Artists 13 Feb Angela Chantry The Dark Origins of St. Valentine’s Day 27 Feb Peter Atkinson Banksy 13 March Rosalind Miranda Apples, Booze and Money (Johnny Appleseed)…
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The U3A has a winner!
Congratulations to Sonja van Belkum. She has won 1st prize at the art competition of the Marina Alta Arts Society. Both she and Meri Snell ( who are the teachers of the U3A mosaics groups) put in an entry. Both mosaics groups are exceedingly proud of her. There were cava celebrations at Sonja’s class yesterday.…
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May 2022 Dining Out
The last events of this season took place at the ever popular BeniAsia Chinese restaurant in Benitachell. The numbers of 24 and 21 on the 3rd and 17th were lower than expected for a variety of well documented reasons affecting our numbers. Then in May we saw a sharp increase of prices in shops and…
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Mosaic Display @ General Meeting 2nd May
Before the general meeting on the 2nd of May our 2 mosaic groups had a lovely display of mosaic art pieces from our students and ourselves. It was very well attended and people were very enthusiastic. There was a lot of interest and questions were asked about materials, backgrounds and how long it took to…