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Between the Sierra & the Sea by Marcus Dalrymple (view source)
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I've never been but always wanted to and reading ''Betwixt the Sierra & the Sea'' has sharpened that urge. Perhaps next year!
Based on the author's own experiences, the book is partly an account of a British family buying a home in the Alpujarra.and partly a love letter travelogue to the region itself. It opens about ten years before the house purchase, with a riding lesson. The landscape is stunning. The riding is hazardous but joyous. The people are welcoming and full of humour. And, Dalrymple decides, one day, he will buy a house here.
Buying a house in the Alpujarra as a Brit means you buy from a Brit, isn't quite what I'd imagined but it's true. Alan and Tina, our ex pat estate agents are generally awful, rude, grasping and probably corrupt. But it has to be done. And really, Alan and Tina are just a blip as we follow the family through the years as they navigate buying a house, renovating it, making friends and bringing up their children.