In my last letter to you, I talked about catching covid on the way to Spain this summer, and I briefly mentioned dragging my covid-negative-but-still-sickly ass around Toledo in the name of novel research. The book is mostly set in Madrid, a city I know very well and have visited a lot in recent years, but there are a few key scenes set in Toledo, where I had only been for maybe four or five daytrips when I lived in Madrid as a college student in the nineties. If I was going to get those scenes right, I needed to refresh my memory.
This was one of the most riveting travel-related newsletter articles (entries? stories?) I've ever read, and not because I just got back from 3 months in Spain myself. The lucky act of stumbling upon a fascinating place is ones of the best things in life ever. I love that it happened not at the end of some strenuous trek to nowhere but in a random souvenir shop. And, can't wait to read your novel set in Spain.
I loved every damn word of this. Thank you.
This was one of the most riveting travel-related newsletter articles (entries? stories?) I've ever read, and not because I just got back from 3 months in Spain myself. The lucky act of stumbling upon a fascinating place is ones of the best things in life ever. I love that it happened not at the end of some strenuous trek to nowhere but in a random souvenir shop. And, can't wait to read your novel set in Spain.