Tour

The camp-sites everywhere in Europe then, usually charged but not always, by the number of people, the car, and the number of tents. Since I had neither car nor tent, and if the campsite charged for cars and tents only, I would stay free.

I know I went to some museums and remember seeing some of the famous Spanish artists, Goya, Velázquez, El Greco. I went to the American embassy. Still no gear. The most striking thing to me in Madrid, was at red stop lights, when the light turned green, everyone usually a dozen or more cars, immediately blared their horns. This struck me as rather petulant if not downright rude.

I had been in Madrid about a week and one half and had been around a little and had talked to people who had been there awhile. As near as I could determine, there was absolutely nothing to do there or see except paintings and a bull fight, which most tourists abhor. It rained all day for two days and there was virtually no sun for a week. The week before it was half and half. They said the weather would break any day, and will in all probability the day I leave."

The food places were good consisting in a lot of light fish dishes. In especially Spain, I noticed the tradition of siesta was a big thing, generally from twelve or one to two or three. They didn't eat dinner until after nine at night. So around four o'clock, everybody hit the snack shops, or one of those for me, 'point and serve' places, as a carry-over to the evening meal. I remember the food as particularly good.

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