A Week in Las Alpajurras
Girl Reading in Capileira Las Alpajurras is a region of spain I’ve wanted to visit for years. Situated on the edge of the Sierra Nevada national park, it has some of the most beautiful landscapes in...
View ArticleA Week in Barcelona
Photographing Barcelona is a tall order, particularly if time is limited and daylight is mostly spent inside one of the most brutal conference centres I’ve ever had the misfortune to visit. I haven’t...
View ArticleTen Days in Andalusia
Ten days in Andalusia, combining house hunting with photography. This time we more or less got the balance right and the photographs can be seen here and of the house hunting, more will be revealed...
View ArticleCasa de Almendras
Casa de Almendras Casa de Almendras, photographed here in the condition we took it over, is a cortijo in the foothills of the Alpujarras, a little way out of Orgiva. There is a garden of oranges,...
View ArticleThe Real Tough Guys
Sierra Lujar I just got back from a week in the Alpujarras, ostensibly working on the house, but finding time to do a bit of photography as well. The Alpujarras are as different from the Costa del Sol...
View ArticleTilting at Windmills
La Mancha The first day, in the desert sun…We’ve just driven from Ironbridge to Orgiva, Southern Spain. 1500 miles in three days, including a detour on day two to see our friends Alice and Jo, who run...
View ArticleO Sei Ling – Place of Clear Light
O Sei Ling – Place of clear LightWe climbed and we climbed.. “O Sei Ling” or “Place of Clear Light” is a Buddhist retreat 1600 metres above sea level, a couple of miles from the house in Orgiva. It...
View ArticleWhite Villages of the Alpujarras
Bubion from Capileira Taking a break from the apparently endless procession of jobs getting the house ready for rental this summer I decided to take a break from the hard work, take my camera and get...
View ArticleExploring Andalucia – La Taha
Sunshine and Rain – La Taha The weather so far this trip has been changeable to say the least! We headed off in the morning to Trevelez, the (second) highest village in Spain at 1486 metres above sea...
View ArticleThe Cave Dwellings of Benalua
Canon 24-70mm In the book “South of Granada” the author, Gerald Brenan writes about the troglodytes of Guadix, a murderous community of bandits found in the desert around Guadix, preying on the hapless...
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