Monthly Archives: July 2019
The Lorca I did see
Though I failed to get in to the house muesem (see previous post), I was able to visit the Centrol Cultural Federico Garcia Lorca, which is currently showing an exhibit of Lorca’s papers and other artifacts related to the writer’s life in Granada. The Centro is a cool modern structure right in the historic center …
Not visiting Lorca’s house
This is the house where the great Spanish poet/playwright/writer Federico Garcia Lorca spent summers and wrote for the last 10 or so years of his life. It was his family’s summer home on what used to be the outskirts of Granada. Apparently it is preserved largely how it was when the family lived there, including …
Spanish classes!
During our second week in Granada, after my parents headed home, a language school about five minutes from our house agreed to do 90 minutes of classes/day for the three kids. They had a lovely teacher named Lola, and I had just enough time to dash down the mountain and do or see one thing …
Fanta, Flamenco, Churros, Chocolate
Mac was extremely taken with flamenco dancing. We went to a dinner and show in our neighborhodd one night, and he was mesmerized. He danced all the way home, and then in the courtyard. I was also taken with flamenco. The music and self-possession of the dancers was amazing. The women especially were there to …