"The moon and the sandy beach love each other madly."

PdS Blog apologizes for its two-month absence, but since a few kind souls have wondered where I've been hiding, here I am. I've had quite a few thoughts and seen quite a few things since August 2nd, but I've forgotten most of them now. A new PdS has been prepared, featuring lots of info about a certain Miguel de Cervantes (you can't step out of your door in Spain at the moment without being Cervantes-ed), and about the Alhambra. It may not be the best moment to revive a blog when you start teaching on Monday and your wife is expecting your second child, but hey. So just a little link to get us going again, where you'll hear extracts from the new Enrique Morente album, Morente sueña la Alhambra, one of the year's musical must-haves. The last song on the album has Morente reciting and singing the tremendously moving final letter written by Miguel de Cervantes to his patron, the Count of Lemos, four days before the writer’s death. It is in this letter that Cervantes’ famous phrase “Puesto ya el pie en el estribo” (“My foot already in the stirrup”) appears, a superbly evocative metaphor from a man who is preparing for his final journey. The image above shows Morente and guitarist Tomatito in a scene from the accompanying documentary. Morente and Tomatito in the Alhambra: don't you wish you could have been there?

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