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“Fondales (Andalucia; Spain)”.
Pencil, pastel, watercolor
2024
Fondales is one of the small “white villages” on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada in a fairly remote section of Andalucia. There really IS nothing to buy…..so, don’t go there for souvenirs to pack in your suitcase. As evinced here, there are, however, a lot of lovely almond groves, and the innkeeper in Fondales is (just as is the innkeeper in the next village) actually named “Jesus”. There are practically no tourists, once you leave Granada. Of course, that’s mostly because the cluster of seven, originally Moorish villages is on the road to exactly nowhere.
We always greatly enjoyed our times in Spain. If nothing else, there were no relatives, clamoring to practice their English on me while Herve and I struggled to simultaneously translate for the relatives who spoke no English (this is a very tiring exercise; I have no idea how translators at the UN do this for hours on end).