CHAPTER 10Spain, Churchill, and Married Life
“LOOK,” I HAD SAID TO BARBARA before our trip to Spain, “I have this great idea: by adding two weeks of reporting on company time to our allotted two weeks of vacation, we can stretch our two-week honeymoon trip into four.” I thought that was clever—but, in retrospect, it was too clever, but not smart. Working on one’s honeymoon, leaving one’s bride to wander the Prado museum alone, could hardly be held up as a model of sensitivity.
We journeyed in our Chevy convertible from San Sebastian (vacation) through Burgos to Madrid (work), then westward through Salamanca to Barcelona (work) and south of there to the coastal resort at Sitges (vacation), where we watched local fishermen pull an octopus from ...
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