LATE MEALS IN SPAIN
Tho Spaniard, at least in Madrid, has a habit of asking you to dinner at 10 p.m. The custom of 1 lunching at 3 p.m. and dining at bed-time disorganises tho day. ' _■ It also means that the Madrilenos go to bed later and get up : later than the people of any other European capital. The theatres open at 10.30 p,m. and are not over until 1.30 or 2 a.m. The late Dictator, Primo de Rivera, whose name is now anathoma, tried to make his countrymen eat at reasonable times. But he failed. They were willing to make at his command a scries of magnificent roads, some of them cut in circles round the face of precipitous mountains, but they resolutely declined to dine at 8 p.m.! It is rather odd that Madrid, which has less night life than any other capital in the world, should stay up later than London, Paris, Berlin or Rome,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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