”Driving over lemons”
- Chris y Ana
- el Valero
- Orgiva
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💼 We packed our bags (again) jumped in our hired car and enjoyed the air conditioned cabin as we headed south to El Valero, Orgiva; in 32 Spanish heat (centigrade, of course) – at first the sun annoyed me (the driver), and some hours later it annoyed Lisa as we approached our destination for the night; some 900 kilometres south of our departure...
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🌚 That night, as we lay in our Hotel room in Granada, it came to mind that we had just about travelled the whole of Spain – north to south – in one day. That distance, back home, we travel just to get to the next major city!
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😋 But, the one and all important aspect of Tapas - the one and only differentiating identifiable feature that separates a Tapas from an ordinary and boring dish just sitting on the cooking bench awaiting it's consumption by the devourer anxiously wanting to achieve absolute pallet satisfaction, the disguisable characteristic that isolates Tapas from 'hors d'oeuvres' -- ¡¡¡the vesicle!!! -- yes; once the food has been placed in a small brown dish it miraculously transforms into Tapas. This vesicle can be made from glass, clay, cane, that doesn't seem to be of any importance. But, it must be small and brown - go figure...
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"You must be jokin' ? what do you mean where the rivers meet? what's their address?"
"You can't expect Chris Stewart to put his address in his book - surely. Anyway, how many rivers can there be. We only have to find two and where they meet." I can't blame Lisa for declaring her newly found characteristic of mine as she voices - " you're an idiot." |
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We opened the gate, walked up the stairs and were greeted by Chris Stewart and his beautiful wife Ana. We were made very welcome even though we were strangers who turned up uninvited; somehow they bathed us with warmth, curiosity and interest – we thanked Chris and Ana from the bottom of our hearts for making our intrusion a normal everyday reunion. We shared a most refreshing and much needed drink of icy cold water infused with freshly sliced lemons and shared stories and points of views. |
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