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Michel Cruz - (info@freelancewriter4u.com)

Michel is a writer and editor who covers a very wide field of topics, ranging from finance and property to current affairs and décor, Having always been fascinated by travel and discovering new places and cultures, his first love is travel writing, yet he also employs this expertise in his quirky analyses of the social issues that affect our everyday lives.
An economist by training with a background in marketing, he has written for and been editor of Villas &… and Essential Marbella Magazine (as well as contributing to a large number of local and international publications, including the Easyjet and Virgin in-flight magazines, Spanish Homes, the Urban Land Institute and the Sunday Times Travel Magazine.

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La Mancha - In Search of Don Quijote
by Michel Paul-Anthony Cruz (scrawl@activanet.es)

The following is an excerpt from "La Mancha—In Search of Don Quijote", published in Essential Marbella Magazine, Issue 37, May 2002.

La Mancha is inextricably connected to Don Quijote; mention the name and it immediately produces images of two solitary figures on horseback, silhouetted against the arid plains of a tableland punctuated not by trees, but by rotund white windmills.

Today you can still follow Don Quijote’s trail, where the tragicomical, melancholy knight and his wily peasant servant, Sancho Panza, roamed about aimlessly, mistaking windmills for ‘giants’.
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