Brava Costas

Brava CostasIn The Beginning there was Robert Ruark. North of Barcelona, in the Palamós of the early 1950s, he found an escape from modern civilization and wrote Something of Value. The only Spanish resort anyone had ever heard of then was San Sebastián on the Atlantic coast, and that was celebrated largely because of its proximity to Biarritz. On the beaches even the men were forbidden to wear topless swimsuits. Unmarried girls swam a discreet distance from the opposite sex, while hawk-eyed due...