On 30 Aug, 18:21, B Vaughan wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:17:05 -0700, Morcel Moreseaux
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> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6966714.stm
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> >A not-so-happy return to the Med
> >By Julian Pettifer
> >BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents
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> >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.
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> >"...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.
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> 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?
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> --
> Barbara Vaughan
> My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
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