Last May I stayed with Bresa and her partner on their farm in Valencia, located near the left bank of the river Xúquer. Which they translated to me, as The Sugar River. The area is known for rice, oranges and Moorish structures. 

The bank she sits at burst last October, amidst the floods that devastated much of easten of Spain, including their neighbouring town of Algamesí. While their home on farm land persisted, protected we believe by the irrigation system built by the Moor people that surrounds it. 

This photo was taken before the flood, when the ancient water system was unused and dried up. 

Bresa at the river, May 2024