During Saturday morning to dedicate ourselves wandering around Granada. We already knew the city well. I a child, and Pilar shortly after, though not as deeply as I do. We let ourselves go by our feet, slowly, walking. We had no hurry. We went into several shops Alcaicería, with that unmistakable taste of Arab medina. We entered the cathedral, we let ourselves be deceived by a gypsy that Pilar was quickly placed a carnation in his hand then attempted to charge the price of gold, and finally ended at a bookstore next to the door of the cathedral. The seller, a stout fellow with good-natured appearance, showed us the latest developments, among which are a facsimile of the first edition of Lorca's Gypsy Ballads, with illustrations by the author. Needless to say, as quickly became fond of Pilar with that jewel, which we had no choice but to buy it. In that sense, Pilar was very clear. If a book came from his eyes he was already theirs.
With our shipment of books (I also bought a few who speak of stories and anecdotes of Granada) and Alcaicería memories, we went to Chiquito, a restaurant on the corner, located in a block of houses opposite the English court. After dinner, the hotel, take a nap. Pilar While dozing, I read poems of Gypsy Ballads. When just one, and thinking he was asleep, trying to close the book. She opened one eye, looked at me and said "what are you doing? Come read another. " We spent the siesta. As you can see, we were taking the day with a parsimony and laxity that squashes. At that time, mid-June, the heat in Granada began to be important, and we tried, consciously and because we wanted something else, not to move too, so no sweat. Everything I have told you took place in a space no more than half, at most a kilometer in diameter.
When the time came closer, we started to dress. At times I thought we looked like two bullfighters placing us the costume. Pilar donned a dress he had bought in Mallorca very stylish shoes, and a thin coat of light color. I wore brown shoes, a pair of light-colored clothing, and (now it's time to grab the males), do not miss it, a silk shirt, dark green. Green silk, I swear. And I can assure you that, at that time, silk shirts any tone were seen as the summum of elegance, although today some find it hard to believe something. I do not remember exactly who gave it to me. Possibly be the same Pilar. I do remember is that a shirt of such cost by then seven thousand pesetas, more or less.
We take a quick at a bar located near the hotel, and headed, with a gleam of happiness in their eyes, what had motivated this weekend output.
"Flamenco Dreams" by Cristina Hoyos, was represented on that Saturday night in the theater of the Generalife. We walk through the Alhambra as we had not ever done, at night, lit, and without the swarm of tourists tend to visit every day. The footsteps of those who were privileged to attend the show on the gravel road from the Alhambra, the Generalife, you could hear quiet, slow paced, and tasting pleasure ahead of us expected.
Pilar fuck out of my arm walking, remembering from time to time Lorca's poems he had read in the afternoon. I was happy. Very happy. This is another very rooted in the personality of Pilar, and those who know her well will know very well what I mean. Pilar was put happy if the person who was at his side was happy. He was satisfied with that. It was me who liked Cristina Hoyos, but was she who had taken the tickets and had organized the trip. When I said, I took great joy, but she took her to see me happy. That was Pilar. I've seen on countless occasions to enjoy something that we liked me or your child, or friend, or their parents, even more than if you would like it.
And the show started. Well ... What about the show. It was Cristina Hoyos. If anything I feel many times in consciousness, and sorry truth is that all those who applaud today's nonsense wildly Joaquín Cortés Sara Baras, will go through life without being appreciated for what it is, in total ignorance the art of dance as big as Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos. Great art, and spoken by someone who feels a special fondness for flamenco. But Cristina Hoyos is flamenco. Is something else.
After each number, Pilar looked at me, excited at what he saw. We enjoyed the two as if possessed by the spirit of Lorca, which was distilled in each of the hand movements of the dancer. The night is perfect, the sky, star, environment, magnificent, the art of Cristina, magical. What more could you ask for one night?. We were both together, living a moment of emotion to the surface that lasted two long days.
Then came many nights in Granada, but no one like that. In fact, that weekend got into my head the idea of \u200b\u200bbuying something to institutionalize weekend in Granada, big mistake on my part, as I shall relate when the time comes.
We returned to Madrid as always, happy for what we had lived, sad because it was over, and a little more closely in the life path that we decided to get together.