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weather. I decided that one day I would return to live in this enchanted land.
It was not until 1975 that I was able to realize my dream, when I bought an apartment with a superb mountain view in the pleasant village of Encamp. At
first I was able to stay there only for about four months every year, because
by then I was teaching at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, and could re-
turn for only two months every summer and winter vacation. But after 1988, I stopped teaching and was able to live permanently here. As I am a writer and
a poet, I wrote essays and poems about Andorra, because living here is a
unique experience. My subjects were the daily lives of the inhabitants and
the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests of Andorra, at all seasons, in all kinds of conditions. I am an early riser, so there were poems about night and dawn, the stars, the moon and the clouds, which are all major elements of the Andorran landscape. Tremendous snowfalls, storms of rain and gales Continued...
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