The third and final short story from the "Gift of Travel" collection, this one was written by American David Yeadon who was traveling around Europe, specifically Spain, in a camper van. He decides that he is going to pay the fare to take the ferry to the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory just of the coast of Africa. There, he finds his dream village, full of friendly, lively, welcoming people. They allow him to move into a temporarily unoccupied house and stay there for a number of months, even bringing his wife over to stay with him for a while.
The driving force in this story comes from the people, who all work on a nearby banana farm, and whose kindness and openness Yeadon makes it his point to convey in the story. One of the other important parts of this story is food, particularly the incredible number of ways that bananas are served in this village. I tried to emulate this in my piece, as I included a section on one of our favourite restaurants in Florence.
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