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| Photo Courtesy of Penney Slack-Dillon |
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Flamenca Penney Dillon shares with SDFlamenco.com pictures from her adventures in Spain earlier this year, She visited Granada, Madrid, Ronda, Toledo, Cadiz, and Sevilla. Enjoy the photos.
Tinto de Verano, Alhambra Special Reserve 1925, jamon-wrapped dates, ox tail, gespacho, tortilla, and café con leche were among my favorite flavors that set the tone for the sensory rich adventure I enjoyed this Spring. Days of cobblestone wanderings from café to architectural wonder to siesta in the plaza led to nights of magical happened-upon events of music and dance.
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Granada
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| Photo Courtesy of Penney Slack-Dillon |
In Cadiz, an evening began in a small neighborhood store where we met friends of friends; locals, ex pats, travelers, and shared a bottle of red wine as we struggled through broken English and Spanish and wild gesticulations to discuss the latest events and one man’s hopes and dreams for his two boys and their future. We all wandered a couple doors down to hear a free, standing-room-only concert of guitar, cante, palmas; the handsome male palmero barely adhering to the role of one accompanying the music and he allowed himself only two brief outbursts of passionate rhythmical dance. The concert ended before anyone was ready; we lingered there shoulder to shoulder, slowly draining our glasses and savoring the energy in the room until obligation pulled us away.
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| Photo Courtesy of Penney Slack-Dillon |
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| Photo Courtesy of Penny Slack-Dillon |
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Ronda
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Feria was a happening of brilliant colors and ruffles; men in dapper suits and ladies in custom-made or rented Feria dresses of the oh-so-snug variety that accommodated very little movement other than Sevillanas and carriage rides. Juaquin the boat Captain from Malaga smuggled me into (private) Caseta #108 where Teresa and Jose Luis and I became Feria friends for life.
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| Photo Courtesy of Penney Slack-Dillon |
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| Photo Courtesy of Penney Slack-Dillon |
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| Photo Courtesy of Penny Slack-Dillon |
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