Spanish Serendipity: A Memoir : Authorhouse : 9781546284727 : 1546284729 : 17 Nov 2017 : Shed the consumer of tourism, and discover the real person making her way through Spain. The boringly stage-managed holiday environment is not for her. Instead, she experiences Spain behind the scenes--a Spain peopled with generous eccentricities and fiesta-loving citizens of Europe. On her travels--not plastic funded and traveling in a sixteen-year-old BMW--she finds idyllic and appalling places to stay in and picnics in paradise. This woman relishes a challenge. There are thousands of miles of fascinating description and humorous observations as she takes us to the mountains, the middle, and the Med. The artificial Spain is groomed to pamper the British visitor; the real Spain accepts people for what they are.