Ronda or the Paradise

After the failure with the shop at Puerto Banus I decided go to live in Ronda a beautifull town on the middle of the andalusian mountains fifty kilometers back to "San Pedro de Alcantara" with three hundred and sixty-five curves on the route. There I rent a house and I start make clothes for sale on Marbella shops, then Fakir the dog and I became citizens of Ronda. There I make a solid friendship with Aurelio he was a Ronda born and had a brithish girlfriend called Geogina she lived with her fathers two painters and her brothers in a lovely small farm on the valley down the town. My friend Aurelio(or my father) convinced me to stop to make clothes and start a new business, make mirrors on the Morroco painted glasses. After know the tecnique, they are painted on the back of the glasses, after glue with gilded paper, the result a very barroque frame mirrors, really I don't like this on an interior decoration. Few days after we finish the first in the Morroco style, I tell to Aurelio _You know dear...I love a painter named Vasarely, he make paintings square with a gradient of the same color, these are very simple if we could copy and a good carpenter would repeat their form but with volume, put on the front the color painted glass plates and mirror plates on the sides, at the depth of the frame. He love the idea to we start to order the first prototype This one was simple, three steps forward the exterior to the center and there two steps more framing the mirror itself, about the colors we start, exterior to center, for the more pale to the more strong on the third step and again gradient to more pale forward the center. On the volume the more high step stair was the third. how we are very impressed with the good result of the prototype we develope differents models of furniture how side tables, cofee tables, consoles and octagonal frames. this one was simple, three steps forward the exterior to the center and there two steps more framing the mirror itself, about the colors we start, exterior to center, for the more pale to the more strong on the third step and again gradient to more pale forward the center. On the volume the more high step stair was the third. How appeared the money to financing all this was pretty amazing ... we had credit. Alistair Boyd and His wife friends for the Geogina's parents had rented the "Mondragon Palace" to establish an school for brithish students but the spanish license never arrived then he lend the palace to put there the workshop, quickly all the young people was disposed to work with us. Days after to start to work in comunnity, one of my partners cam with this new.. _Tomas on the garage turning the corner side the owner have to sale an beautifull Jaguar for only four hundred USA dollars. Two minutes after we go to buy, this was a 4,5 liters 1966 four doors Royal Navy car, magnificent , inside upholstery in a pale blue gray lether and the front desk driver and the border windows venereed walnut root. With this car we turn to Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, San Sebastian, Bilbao and all the important spanish towns to sale our production placed in the luggage rack atached at the ceiling, protecting each other with with foam mattresses. In this conditions we sale one millon of pesetas, that was enought for six months work. The young people of Ronda was fascinated with the travels no many of them go more far before to Malaga or Seville and in one travel wo go to see The Rolling Stones at is first coming to Barcelona. The life was passing on the best of the world we enjoy a friendly community with young girls and boys. One day who appears?? The fucking Mario Conio(vagina) the same who suggested Jaime Parlade to send me in Jail, he coming asking where buy drugs but he just finish to buy a house at the country side. That was a bad premonition, the serpent had establish on the paradise. The wife of Aly, Lady Kilmarnok was a charming woman she invited me drink a cup of tea to her house, a magnificent house-palace with ceilings for the XV century decoring the wall with ancestors paintings dressed in a Hunting Diana with moon quarter at her front. Surely this must be by big english master but after forty years I can't forget him. And the Georgina's mother try teach me english translated the Omar Kyam verses. That was the more next place to the paradise where I lived in my life..