06 March 2014, The Tablet

Faith in focus

by Peter Frymann

Tablet Traveler

 
Photography can help us look into the heart of Creation, as Janet and Peter Frymann found out when they took part in an unusual spiritual retreat in the warmth of southern Spain Alicante, on Spain’s Costa Blanca, is one of those destinations associated with mass tourism and badly behaved Brits, but away from the hotel-lined beaches, only 10 miles inland, on the edge of a village on whose streets English is rarely heard, is a centre that offers retreats using photography, creative writing and songwriting as spiritual exercises.We headed off just as England was succumbing to the cold, dark dampness of autumn and the clocks went back, and spent 10 days enjoying temperatures in the mid-eighties at the Palm Grove Community (or “El Palmeral”) run by English lay couple Mike an
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