Handwritten travel diary of her trip with another woman, Chicago to Spain, Italy and Belgium, 28 February - 27 May, 1958

by Larson, Mrs

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Various Places, 1958. leatherette. Very Good. 131pp, hand written. Mrs. Larson's accounts of meals, souvenirs, hotels and prices are detailed. She takes lots of photos on this trip and makes extensive tours on foot. After a one-week sail on the SS Saturnia, she arrives at Lisbon, tours the city, comments on the food, then goes by seaplane to Funchal, Madeira and spends 12 days there, taking snapshots, enjoying cocktails and dinners, and nightclubbing with new acquaintances (including one man whom she describes in her pre-diary notes as "homosexual mink"). Then it's on to Las Palmas, Canaries by seaplane, a car-tour to Tejedas, detals of banana plantations in Arucas, etc. After a brief stay at Tenerife, she bums a free ride back to Las Palmas on a German freighter. On March 26, she flies to Madrid, then back to Lisbon, and a "trip north" by car to Aljubarrata, Bussaco, Coimbra and Fatima, returning to Madrid. Then she's off on an "Andalusia trip" including Seville and Merida, a bus tour to Granada and Cordoba, and on to Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona (bullfight, dining with sailors, nightclubbing, &c.). After sightseeing in Segovia and Avila, she flies to Rome, entrains for Florence, on to Naples, an "Amalfi drive" to Sorrento and Pompeii, then off to Capri. Finally, she trains back to Rome, flies to Paris (Lido and Follies), then by train to Brussels and the Exposition, a Cook's tour of Bruges and Ghent, flight back to Paris, and home. As an unsophisticated but eager traveler, Mrs. Larson offers an interesting point-of-view. 6.75" x 4".

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