## Metadata * Author: [[Chris Stewart]] * ASIN: B089YFF5VH * ISBN: 0375709150 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089YFF5VH ## Highlights El Granadino, the little settlement at the southern end of the valley. — location: [172](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=172) ^ref-43987 --- we drank copious quantities of wine, the same brown stuff Pedro and I had been drinking over the river: costa as they call it, in deference to its being grown on the slopes above the coast. — location: [461](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=461) ^ref-26730 --- there has to be some flaw in every paradise and flies had clearly been allocated to mine — location: [686](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=686) ^ref-19956 --- you don’t want a new machine either, because a man with a new machine will be frightened to scratch the paintwork and he won’t push it hard enough.’ — location: [749](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=749) ^ref-22135 --- we weren’t so much depressed, just numbed with surprise to find ourselves actually taking part in a script we ourselves had written. — location: [814](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=814) ^ref-13868 --- bolina, — location: [1367](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=1367) ^ref-19363 --- In spring the blossoming of the orange trees takes you unawares. At first only a pale haze becomes apparent across the dark green of the leaves. This is the green of the flower-buds. Then all of a sudden the buds are transformed into exquisite white five-petalled stars, radiating from cream-yellow pistils and stamens. The scent is delicate and heady, and when each tree becomes a mass of white flowers an almost tangible mist of orange blossom hangs in the air. — location: [1399](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=1399) ^ref-33054 --- Our neighbours spread sheets beneath the trees to catch the flowers for orange blossom tea, flor de azahara, which apparently helps you to sleep. — location: [1407](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=1407) ^ref-32174 --- However much you may fight against it, if you live abroad where there are other expatriates, you become part of what is known as the Foreign Community. Initially, I struggled hard against this notion but as the years passed I grew more relaxed about my status as a foreigner and more willing to appreciate the ties that, by language, humour and shared experience, bound me to my compatriots. — location: [2606](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=2606) ^ref-40091 --- A battered, second-hand copy of Spanish Mountain Life, Juliette’s wonderfully quirky and triumphant account of that year in Lanjarón, formed our introduction to her works. — location: [3007](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=3007) ^ref-41932 --- the ability to keep a long story in one’s head tends to diminish with literacy. — location: [3150](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=3150) ^ref-27549 --- houses here seem to show their appreciation of a human presence by being slower to fall down. — location: [3522](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B089YFF5VH&location=3522) ^ref-38478 ---