Aitana's VirtualTourist Home Page

With this is page I pay homage to my father, Vicente, who died on June 22, 2007, at the age of 79.

He used to paint and my parent’s home is full of his paintings. Some of them are based on places that I had visited. The landscape of the picture, Muchavista beach, in Campello, with the Puig Campana at the bottom, is the view he had from his summer home. He painted it so many times!

He was not a prototype of VT traveler; he has never been out of Spain. But he and my mother lived each of my travels, listening to me and watching hundreds of pictures of my trips.

I owe him my first travels. I remember long journeys inside the car, doing hundreds of kilometers of those old roads in the 70s. Madrid, Avila, Segovia, Toledo, Granada, Almería, Malaga, Valencia, Murcia… And of course, Cuenca, my mother’s home town, and also the town where my brother and I were born. All the family used to take part of these adventures: parents, grandparents and children, six people in a car of that time!

He was the best driver. In fact, he really taught me to drive. He had so many qualities: calm, patient, quiet, kindhearted…

Some months ago, he was so happy driving his daughter to her wedding altar! I want to memember him like this.