I have been reading Gerald Brenan’s hilarious and half sarcastic recollection of Lytton Strachey’s visit to the village of Yegen in the Alpujarra which, in a brief compass, gives a much better sense of his over-refined and etiolated character than anything else I have ever read.   Brenan manages to convey the fantastic incongruity of Strachey sitting on a mule and bumping uphill whilst talking in his oddly high-pitched way.   We’re going to the Alpujarra for Easter so if any readers have recommendations of what to see and where to go, please let me know.