On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:17:05 -0700, Morcel Moreseaux
wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6966714.stm
>
>A not-so-happy return to the Med
>By Julian Pettifer
>BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents
>
>I was lucky, I knew her at her best. Fifty years ago, in 1957, I
>hitchhiked my way around Spain and had the beaches almost to myself.
>
...
>"...then (in the 50s) it was filled with dark little shops selling
>oil, wine and olives and formidable-looking corsets to peasant women
>with long black dresses. Donkeys were the main traffic. It was
>intensely Spanish. Now, it could be just about anywhere. The shops
>have that international chic I associate with boutiques in big
>international airports.
Should peasant women have to continue to wear formidable corsets in
40 degree weather, world without end, Amen, so that British traveller
writers can get some great photos? Or is this lament just fuel for a
sneer at those who never saw it all when it was worth seeing?
--
Barbara Vaughan
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