'...I had imagined Bilbao was a place full of lovely sailors and ships, but in case any misguided person should in future console themselves during a night journey from Madrid with equally Castilian imaginings, I will here record in cold ink that of all ports on God's earth it is the vilest. Even the Spaniards are debased, and so hideous that I believe they must really be French. They all wear the most stupid clothes and are rude and ungracious. The town is unredeemed by a single building which one could call architecture. In short it is very like what one conceives a south American port run up in 2 weeks by a cinema firm would be...'
from a letter to Lytton Strachey, dated April 18, 1919, in Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries by Dora Carrington
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