I wonder if the people from this small corner of Extramadura were sent to an even worse alligator infested swamp in the Spanish Colony of Florida. Where eventually the US Military and then NASA fired rockets from. I have to say that despite having been to many places, and seeing many amazing things, that sitting on the shoreline watching Shuttle Columbia turn night into day has been the most impressive! I hope the hostal tonight is better than the squalid Cañaveral one I stayed in last night. Filthy with no hot water and a very high chlorine content in the water. The shower was like washing in freezing cold bleach. Fortunately I knew what to do "Citadel" When you don't have enough weapons, men, heat, money whatever to dominate the full space then reduce it to a Citadel. Like the government advice to the vulnerable to only heat one room. So I cleaned enough space to lie down and found a broken heater which could still be used. These heaters, typical in Spain, would be against the law anywhere else! They are circular and fit underneath a table, in a hole cut in the base. They strike me as the best way of starting a fire known to man! Anyway a warm and comfortable night, leaving the next morning touching nothing on the way out!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Cañaveral
I wonder if the people from this small corner of Extramadura were sent to an even worse alligator infested swamp in the Spanish Colony of Florida. Where eventually the US Military and then NASA fired rockets from. I have to say that despite having been to many places, and seeing many amazing things, that sitting on the shoreline watching Shuttle Columbia turn night into day has been the most impressive! I hope the hostal tonight is better than the squalid Cañaveral one I stayed in last night. Filthy with no hot water and a very high chlorine content in the water. The shower was like washing in freezing cold bleach. Fortunately I knew what to do "Citadel" When you don't have enough weapons, men, heat, money whatever to dominate the full space then reduce it to a Citadel. Like the government advice to the vulnerable to only heat one room. So I cleaned enough space to lie down and found a broken heater which could still be used. These heaters, typical in Spain, would be against the law anywhere else! They are circular and fit underneath a table, in a hole cut in the base. They strike me as the best way of starting a fire known to man! Anyway a warm and comfortable night, leaving the next morning touching nothing on the way out!
