Room with a Pew: Sleeping Our Way Through Spain's Ancient Monasteries

by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt

One recent summer, Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt traveled through Spain - from Barcelona in the north to Malaga on the southern Mediterranean coast - staying exclusively in ancient monasteries. As they quickly discovered, these are intriguing places in which to stay. They are ripe with history, art and culture (living museums); peopled by a dying breed of monks and nuns (last chance to see); rarely visited (so few tourists); and open to anyone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762781459
• ISBN13: 9780762781454
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Authors grossly disrespectful of those who are giving them hospitality and too busy pretending to be

Geographically aimless, nastily sarcastic, and unpleasant in tone even if one could tolerate the authors' religious intolerance.