British Tourists Research Articles

British Food Journal Volume 68 Issue 7 1966

Spaniards do not have a term to define the diarrhoea and vomiting, occurring either singly or in combination, which affects British tourists to Spain. Enfermedad espanola, a generic term, explains nothing, no more than the term “Spanish ‘tummy’” and from the number of reports by returning visitors of sickness, ranging from one‐day vomiting or diarrhoea to a week or more of severe symptoms, often leading to prostration and collapse, varied pathology is indicated; a combination of causes, although how much is due to intestinal pathogens and how much to plain dietary disturbance is not known. What is certain, however, is that the incidence rate is very high; during the height of the summer anything from 80 to 100%.

Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain'

The centenary of the publication of Richard Ford's 'Hand-book for travellers i Spain' must not be allowed to pass without some account of the man and his book, rightly classed by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell as among the best books of travel, humour and history, social, literary, political and artistic, in the English language. x It is especially appropriate that Richard Ford's achievement should be remembered in the Geographical Journal as he was for some years a Fellow of the Society.2 After the end of the Napoleonic wars an annually increasing number of British tourists visited the continent, but very few adequate English guidebooks were then available to assist these travellers. It is true that an admirable