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Parents will know all about those words they hear from the rear of the holiday hire car. Words guaranteed to send a chill down the spine of mummy or daddy. Two words. What’s that? An almost inevitable utterance from children who see something out of the car window. A sight they are not used to seeing when at home. So, here are some answers to that annoying question. What is that?

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It is always tempting to keep the discoveries you make in Spain to yourself. To not let on. To protect the whereabouts of a special place you find. After all, you wouldn’t wish it to become too popular, would you? That might spoil the essence of what attracted you there in the first place. But i am willing to take the chance and sing the praises of Dilar, south of Granada. And it is no coincidence that, as with so many other special places in Spain, a river runs through it. 

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Should i ever get a spare few months, i will sort out the multitude of photographs i have taken during ten years of travelling Spain. I envy those who have their pictures organised and neatly categorized. When trawling through my thousands of photos it is more a case of lucky dip. But all bring back memories of life in Spain.  But, just maybe, not as you know it.

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When the skies are bright, there is a crisp feeling in the air and the sunshine is warm enough to sit out in for a few hours during the day. That means winter and you are in Granada. Snow, plenty of it, looks down on the city centre from its place on the imperious Sierra Nevada mountains. I love Granada in Winter. 

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Wherever Paul Simon was thinking of when writing the classic hit record, ‘The Sound of Silence’, one thing is for sure. He wasn’t dedicating the song to Spain. The Spanish love noise. They would feel bereft without it. But what are the sounds of Spain? The loud ones, and the less intrusive, quiet ones. And where should you go to hear them?

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