Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel

Insights, information and photographs about Spanish gastronomy, wine, culture and customized tours to Spain, where award-winning writer-photographer Gerry Dawes, author of Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain, where he has been traveling for more than 50 years. Content is from articles, books-in-progress and travel notebooks of Gerry Dawes. Reproduction is prohibited without written permission and author credit.

Showing posts with label Jacinta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacinta. Show all posts
1/11/2012

Decency because you wear something called a frock coat! What a farce humanity is. The poor always the underdogs, the rich doing as they please. I’m rich. I’m frivolous, I know it. -- Juanito Santa Cruz in Fortunata y Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdós Epic Novel of 19th Century Spain

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* * * * * Cover: Detail from Chica in a Bar (1892) by Ramón Casas,  in El Museo de la Abadía, Montserrat (Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library...
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