Friday, April 14, 2006

r. steves redux......

ok, so those who i have traveled with this me these many years know that i use r. steves backdoor books as gospel on trips.....despite the problems with maps....and so this afternoon's revelation was with more than the usual horror...keep in mind that i have been listening to frances mayes a year in the world for many days.....with no ruffled feathers from misquotes/poor directions as compared to available guidebooks......until frances mayes and her spouse arrive in granada......to listen to frances mayes text.....every site is an homage to frederico garcia lorca....the nationist poet matyred by the franco republicans.........to read r. steves on granada is to be unaware that a poet ever lived there, let alone a poet murdered by rightest troups......how does this work?.....either lorca lived here or he didn't........picasso and guernica were mentioned at the renia sofia...in passing......but nothing else to do with the civil war......i am so disappointed that the r.steves guidebooks are so......rightest.....as to leave out an entire war......at least the leftist side........as well as to pretend that the murder of a gay poet never happened.....

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