Get chills just thinking about the possibility of falling ill while traveling from Spain to the West Indies, especially since the only remedy that seems to have in the pharmacy of the ship are "oils lizard, brick, soot and spirit horn deer, frogs and bats plasters, powders crab eyes and virginal milk. "And perhaps most frightening to know that this inventory is not carrying a Columbian ship late fifteenth century, but any other early modern eighteenth century. The blunt descriptive journey that Alfredo Moreno Cebrian offers on the daily lives of those on board the Carrera de Indias is one of the trials included in Ten studies on travel literature (CSIC, 2006) and edited by Manuel Lucena Giraldo and Juan Pimentel. Neither seem to do very well to the refined British ladies who venture through the picturesque nineteenth-century Spain; and that some of them move a whole world to feel at home, as the six trunks Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards and her friend, Mme suffrage. Bodichon, which fits up to 'a folding rubber bathtub, [...] two or three bales of rugs, [...] a sewing silk [...] and finally, a bag of miscellaneous items as copybooks, opera glasses, passports, a teapot, a bag of water, air pillow, slippers and many objects. "Elena Carrera includes the testimonies of the English traveling (the male Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor in its sea route, the gaze of the painter Louisa Tenison, the aristocratic junket Lady Sophia Dunbar and family), his adventures and misadventures, their disappointments and surprises, doses of infinite patience needed to travel for a Spain that, contrary to the portraits made ​​by Washington Irving and Théophile Gautier, it seems, most of them, very little Spanish. No oriental exoticism in that dusty Málaga stinking rotten fish and where a blazing sun not recommended for very white skin Frances Minto Elliot falls. They travel in the wake of nineteenth-century European grand tour, but also are women, and that enriches the reason for your trip: do it for the experience, original and quirky, the distinction between the condition imposed by their age. Travel to the dangerous and wild and makes Spain the singles and women.