Andrew Grant-Adamson and Lesley Grant-Adamson — A Season in Spain

Pavilion 1995 Hardback, 218pp. This is Lesley and Andrew Grant-Adamson's account of the time they lived in the Alpujarra region of Spain between Granada and the Mediterranean. Through their personal experiences, the Grant-Adamsons were drawn into the customs, traditions and economic issues affecting life in the Alpujarra. They recount the reaction of the locals to the arrival into their rural community of an inexperienced English couple, the crises and triumphs that accompanied the olive harvest, the colour and pageantry of local fiestas, and the constant problems of drought and dry rivers. This is the rocky world where to Moors settle when they were chased out of Granada five hundred years ago. They are very much in evidence, especially in the clusers of flat rofed houses that might be taken for villages in North Africa: and in the irrigation system that waters the terraces. Out oive grow was on the fertile river plane of the Guadalfeo, twenty miles from Granada as the eagle flies and twelve miles from the Mediterranian. (ISBN: 9781857933055). Good.