http://www.kerraway.com/2010/01/23/british-writers-on-spain-at-the-cervantes-institute/ ...in which an editor escapes from his day job Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.kerraway.com/2010/01/23/british-writers-on-spain-at-the-cervantes-institute/comment-page-1/#comment-90631 Annie Bennett Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:44:06 +0000 http://www.kerraway.com/?p=423#comment-90631 Michael Jacobs is totally right about the obsession with Andalusia being the 'real Spain'; more like the real hackneyed old travel cliche. But a few of us hispanophiles are doing our best to write about the the joys of the north, Castilla-Leon (which is the 'real Spain' if anything is), and yes, even the Canary Islands in a non-package-tour-hell way. Sorry I'm missing this series of talks and look forward to reports on the others. Michael Jacobs is totally right about the obsession with Andalusia being the ‘real Spain’; more like the real hackneyed old travel cliche. But a few of us hispanophiles are doing our best to write about the the joys of the north, Castilla-Leon (which is the ‘real Spain’ if anything is), and yes, even the Canary Islands in a non-package-tour-hell way. Sorry I’m missing this series of talks and look forward to reports on the others.

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