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"This is the first course I have done where, at the end of it, I feel restored in body and soul."
Mimi Khalvati
'Fresh Ways to New Poems September 2004
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"If this house were in Wales it would be Gorfwysfa. It will stay with me and when I am not here it will still be a retreat for my mind."
Hilary Elfick
Mimi Kahalvati: 'Fresh Ways to New Poems September 2004
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"Appropriate that we studied poems as "machines made out of words"! in a beautiful house built around a beautiful antique machine..."
Michael Donaghy
A Week With Michael Donaghy Sept 2004
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"...it has been a beautiful week, painting under nightingale trees and eating saffron soups (and drinking more than poets) .....
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Michaela Gall
Painting in the Marina Baja' May 2004
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"La brisa en el olivar
y la luz de la luna
sobre el bancal
hacen de cualquier hombre
un poeta

- y la cocina en la casa
ayul de la Calle
Maria del Milagro
hace de cualquier poet
un genio

Gwyneth Box , Martin Bates, Pat Adelman
Fawzia Kane & Arthur North
(The breeze in the olives, and the moonlight on the orchards make anyone a poet - and the kitchen of the house on the street of Mary of Miracles make any poet a genius...)"
Gwyneth Box/Martin Bates
'Finding the Poem' 2003
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"An artist's consort enjoyed the fantastic hospitality, the review of all life from outside Pepé's bar and the intellectual stimulation. Thank you both for letting us stay in your superb home..."
David Vicary
'Painting the Marina Baja' Oct.2003
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"...the walking was superb, the food was wonderful and the company terrific. It was much more than the sum of its parts."
Philippa Ingram
Walking the Marina Baja Mountains with Gill Round October 2005
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"Thanks to all - Chris, Marisa, Carmen, Rosa , Lula, the swifts, the bees and butterflies, the generations of peasants who made the landscape and, of course, not forgetting the mayor of Relleu."
Paul Batten
Walking Footloose in The Marina Baja 2007
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"Thanks to Sue for your gentle and inspiring guidance, thanks to marisa for her delumptious mealage; thanks to Christopher for your wonderful hosting and recital. I take home some rich memories and food for thought - Golden Rays...
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Lisa Griffiths
'Painting the Marina Baja ' - Sue Whitmore 2007
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"I love this place, love the landscape and the house itself with its spaciousness and the olive press with its great granite stones and the paintings. It feels very calm and restful and then, when everyone is round the table - so full of life..."
Vicki Feaver
The Poetic Prose of Memoir' Judith Barrington 2007
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Here you can read a selection of comments from people who have attended our writing, photography and art courses at the Almàssera Vella.