Thus the ‘new’ journey with Kati revisits some of the ‘old’ places and people from the earlier trip. Lee had been there 15 years before, just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Lee (aged 37) and his wife Kati set off to Andalucia in the winter of 1951 and travelled around the area for 4 months. In the end, I became captivated by his writing and read the whole thing (not actually very long at 112 pages), including the ‘Granada’ chapter again. Planning my reading for Malaga, I couldn’t find anything actually set in the city, but as Lee’s book is about Andalucia then I thought I should give it another airing and read more. I actually bought Laurie Lee’s A Rose for Winter last year to take to Granada, and indeed read that chapter while there. I’ve recently been to Malaga and when I’m away, I like to take along a novel or travel book set wherever I’m heading.
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