029 For The Love of Lorca And More - JORGE GARRIZ talks about Romancero Books Online Bookshop

Travelling Through... London, the World and Life

JORGE GARRIZ is from the Spanish region of Navarra, close to Pamplona. He studied Fine Arts in Valencia and Bilbao after which he ended up in Barcelona with the idea of studying an MA. Instead, he came to London on a two-month grant to learn English. Ten years later he has a number of key jobs under his belt working for architectural practices in hospitality and office management. London has become Jorge's home and while furloughed during the first 2020 lockdown, Jorge realised he finally had time to create and implement the first stages of his dream project. By June 2020 Romancero Books was born and books written in the Spanish language are being sold online to a hungry tribe of book lovers and the spanish speaking UK diaspora who are desperate to be able to access and read books in their mother tongue. Jorge's next steps are to provide spanish-written books in English and he is partnering up with small publishing houses to make this happen.

Jorge worked in the evenings for Travelling Through's events for a short while before his day job took him to another part of London. Now that Romancero Books is live, we are keen to support him in any way we can and we hope this podcast will resonate and inspire you and your Spanish friends living in the UK to support him too - please check out the crowdfunding initiative he is involved wtih through the Mayor of London's crowdfunding scheme.

Meanwhile, tune in to this week's podcast and be carried away by the warmth and sincerity of Jorge's business quest to bring the Spanish language to an ever wider audience and in so doing support books, authors and the oh so important personal service that small businesses bring to us individually as well as to our communities.

TO SUPPORT ROMANCERO BOOKS THROUGH THE MAYOR OF LONDON'S CROWDFUNDING SCHEME, PLEASE CLICK HERE:

https://payitforward.london.gov.uk/romancero-books

YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH JORGE GARRIZ HERE:

email: [e-mail]

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/romancerobooks/?hl=en

CHECK OUT ROMANCERO BOOKS ONLINE BOOKSHOP HERE:

website: https://www.romancerobooks.co.uk/

Romancero Books is now on Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/romancerobooks

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TO KNOW MORE about your podcast host EMMA you can go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/

THANKS to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our upbeat travelling through podcast jingle!

AND FINALLY, a big thanks to Workspace Brickfields in Hoxton for hosting our podcast chat - and safely storing my bicycle - so we could be out of the cold on an early December evening.

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