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Click
here to go to the home page of Casas de Lorenzo
in Montefrio, a white village of Andalucia. Vacation homes and
holiday lets in rural Andalusia, lodging and
accommodation in southern Spain...
Visit Lorenzo's new website relating
his travels in France and richly illustrated with his own photographs.
The site includes Lorenzo's pen-and-ink postcards of Paris and Provence. A stock of these
poetic cards from the 1980's is now available for purchase! Click
on
www.french-places.com
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Publications
of Editorial Natívola
Granada,
City of My Dreams
Granada,
City of My Dreams (May 2000) is Lorenzo's love song to
the city of the Nasrid Kings, with over
200 pages of clear, informative, nostalgic and often ironic text, as well as some 60 of Lorenzo's drawings of Granada and the Alhambra.
Granada has a special place in our
imagination, whether we have ever visited it or not. That is
why Granada, City of My Dreams, in
the words of the author, was written not only as a guide but
as “a book about Granada for the nun in Norway who is
sitting in her armchair and wants to travel there in her mind”.
Lorenzo, poet, polyglot, illustrator, curious traveller and
"self-made historian " par
excellence, has filled these pages with
luminous descriptions and drawings, the culmination of
forty years of wanderings through the palaces and
labyrinths of his adopted homeland, Granada.
Click here to see some of the
illustrations
Retail price 18 euros,
in Granada at the bookshop of
El Corte Inglés. It can be shipped to UK for 30 euros and USA for
40 euros (total price
book+postage). If you order two or more books, the
shipping and handling costs go down considerably. Note: this book
also exists in Spanish and French, translated by the author himself.
Portrait of
Montefrio
Portrait of Montefrio
(May 2003) is the latest of the "books for the curious traveller".
Rather than a
guide or a travel book, it can best be described as the story of a
40-year relationship with a Spanish town, in 220 wistful, witty and
highly informative pages, with over 50 of Lorenzo's drawings
and maps.
This
erudite but free-wheeling work focuses on subjects such as Montefrio's history and
archaeology, local traditions and ways of life. It tells of
Lorenzo's friendship with a flamenco singer who was the town butcher
and how he restored and redesigned an ancient farmhouse. There are
also lively vignettes on Lorenzo's culinary inventions using local ingredients,
the gypsy community, the art of making jamón serrano and olive oil, and, last but not least, the author's personal saga in Spain, which began
at the tender age of 18.
Click here to read some of Lorenzo's
Montefrio stories
Retail price 18 euros,
in Granada at the bookshop of
El Corte Inglés. It can be shipped to UK for 30 euros and USA for
40 euros (total price
book+postage). If you order two or more books, the
shipping and handling costs go down considerably.
Nina's Book
In March 2001 Lorenzo published
the diary he kept during the time of his daughter's
birth in Rio, Brazil. This eclectic tale of
travel, love, friendship and philosophical meditation is entitled Nina's
Book, and presents itself to the adventurous (and
broad-minded) reader as "the making of a child of the
world". It is illustrated with over 20 of Lorenzo's pen-and-ink
postcards of Andalucia and Rio de Janeiro.
Retail price 15 euros. If you are renting a cottage in Montefrio, you can
pay for the book with your deposit at the reduced price of 12 euros and it
will be delivered to you upon arrival. It can be shipped to UK for
27 euros and USA for 37 euros
(total price book+postage). If you order two or more books, the
shipping and handling costs go down considerably.
To place your order,
write to me directly at
lawrence.bohme@hotmail.com
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