โ€˜Their pursuits are the cigar and the siestaโ€™: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among โ€˜English-speaking Quixotesโ€™ in new book celebrating literary love for all things SpanishAlmost 200 years ago, the pioneering British travel writer Richard Ford offered an observation that has been happily ignored by t…