A love / hate letter to a place you love/ hate

This is just a variation of the traditional letter to the person you admire most. Instead of addressing the message to a famous person we write to the city, town or village of our dreams.

 

My dearest village

 

I´ve been thinking long and hard before writing this letter...

I find it difficult to write down everything you have given me..

There´s so much I would like to say to you: you are the air that I breathe.

In fact, I cannot imagine my life without you: I´d never leave you as when I´m

away for just a few days or weeks I suffer from my peculiar town sickness:

 all my thoughts go back to you obsessively: This is the place of my dreams, heaven on earth, my oneiric promised land, where, once dead, I would like to periodically return to.

I have enjoyed the spring sunrises, the autumn sunsets, the sounds, the light, the smells of every single fiesta every month, the orange blossom, the almond blossom... Our scenery is constantly changing following the pattern of the seasons but there is one thing that remains constant:

my love for you.

I can still remember the very first time I came to this precious place, opened my eyes and was dazzled by the light at the Balcony, the bluest sea I had ever seen and the wild beauty of your twenty unspoilt beaches and coves... I believe  I´m the luckiest person in the world for living in this most wonderful place called .... NERJA.

Know that no matter how far I am, you will be in my heart wherever I go.

You are my inspiration in life and my dream paradise.

In short, I love you with all that I am, all that I was and all that I ever will be.

Yours forever

XXX

JMCC

 

Try to identify the cliches in the sentences above.

Write one composition along the same lines: My dear Paris; Madrid, my beloved city; Dearest New York; My darling Frigiliana; Dear Málaga;etc..

Try to recall the 20 coves or beaches mentioned in the text from Cantarriján to Calaceite.