Show By RALPH P. The university sponsored various tours of Seville and the southern part of We visited the city of and other places rich in THE TRIP to Huelva was especially interesting and We started out by smuggling me on the bus because there were no more seats Typical of Spanish not enough transportation had been The professor who served as guide counted heads several always finding too When he discovered what had he benevolently decided that I could and asked for a chair to be brought on the bus for a Swiss girl who shared my sang Swiss yodeling songs to and all in all I was very glad that she and other friends had persuaded me to Spanish roads are badly in need of every type of repair including bridge building and At one point we had to dismount and walk across a weak At least one bridge we used dated from Roman AT HUELVA we visited the the monastery where Columbus the chapel where he prayed prior to leaving for the new After a delicious meal of various courses at the university we started our homeward we stopped at a village on the way La Palma del where the mayor invited us to stay for the being Sandwiches and several types of wine were free to In fact we were served by members of the Guardia Civil Even the students from Oxford soon forgot their reserve under the spell of Spanish wine and became the life of the WHEN EVERYONE had found the bus late that I we were still full of life all the way back to Seville sona from every European filled the but to me the high point of the day was the vS we paid to the home of Ramon author dt which was a ing factor in earning him ne 1956 Nobel BETTER STILL were the trips which a few of us made with a young Swiss He invited Ursla an English and Lieve a Belgian to journey with us down to the points of interest on the southern At he claimed his car wouldn't make it to the top with all of us in so we Mary and Lieve were very but accustomed to such famous mountains as those in the region gave me From the top we looked down on the miles of blue which stretched out before our eyes a blue which is peculiar to the The rock from this point was and much of it had been reinforced with concrete for defense We were proud that we had Mary and Lieve joined and we walked down the instead of using the many flights of to the monkey The beasts are one jumped on my Others were climbing on cars in the IN THE which hangs on the side of the rock and settles in the small amount of available flat we again found and had some English food in a local restaurant while we listened to the English of local how strange this sounds in a Spanish We left the historic rock impressed at the amazing work which the British had We returned to driving along the coast of southern The conversation turned again to our various native and I was asked to sing cowboy |