2013 Price: 640 euros per person sharing.
- 7 nights half-board accommodation H**.
- Transfers from Almeria or Granada airports.
- 3 x 3 hour sessions, sketching on location with tutor Jeni.
- Picnics or bar lunches.
- Local transport to and from sketching locations.
- Choose your own dates, subject to availability.
Options
- single supplement €150
- Malaga airport transfer €40 each way. But it is quite easy to get the public bus to granada from where the transfer is included.
- extra art sessions by arrangement.
- Guided walking.
- walk notes describing walks from the hotel are in the hotel library.
The Hotel Los Berchules is situated on the edge of the Alpujarran village of Berchules. A typical, traditional white village, consisting of flat roofed, Berber style, whitewashed houses. It clings to the hillside above a river gorge, with amazing views down to the coast and up to the high sierra. Berchules is centrally situated in the upper Alpujarra, with the valleys of Trevelez and Poqueira to the West and Mecina Bombaron and Yegen to the East.
Berchules has 3 supermarkets, a bank, pharmacist, and half a dozen bars.
My Sketching Kit consists of a folding metal pallette, Winsor and Newton watercolour and gouache paints in tubes, an assortment of pastels, graphite sticks and putty rubber, a water pot and a large bottle of water for drinking and painting, a ring-bound watercolour sketchbook, a toilet roll, a large sun hat, sun cream and a small rucsac to pack them all in. I also take a small digital camera and a folding stool.
The hotel is situated on the outskirts of the village of Los Berchules, surrounded by stunning mountain scenery. A friendly family run **hotel run by an English-Spanish family. All rooms with south facing terraces, an outdoor pool for the summer, and a good fireplace for the cooler months. The cooking is mainly regional and special diets can be catered for. Favourite dishes, all made with local ingredients, are dry cured ham, goats cheese, barbequed lamb, rabbit in almond sauce, kid in garlic sauce and the "soups of the day". Every day a different local soup or stew. Salads, tortillas and gazpacho are popular in the summer months. There is a good selection of local and other Spanish wines. On the ground floor there are bookcases with plenty of reading matter about the region and its history, plus books on cookery, travel and art. The hotel is a favourite with artists and many original paintings decorate the walls of the restaurant and guest lounge.
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