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My wife and I once found an actual castle in Spain and celebrated Thanksgiving there with a delicious feast. We slept there. too. amid luxurious, impeccably maintained medieval furnishings. The beautiful castle looked, inside and out, very much as it must have during the reign of Spanish King Enrique II in the 14th century.
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My wife and I once found an actual castle in Spain and celebrated Thanksgiving there with a delicious feast. We slept there. too. amid luxurious, impeccably maintained medieval furnishings. The beautiful castle looked, inside and out, very much as it must have during the reign of Spanish King Enrique II in the 14th century.
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My wife Gerry and I expect to have a pleasant Thanksgiving, and hope you do, too. But ours couldn’t possibly match the Thanksgiving we spent a long time ago in – yes! – a castle in Spain. I mean an actual castle in Spain … not the kind that pops up in dreams of faraway places with strange sounding names … but a real castle.
The year was 1961.The place was the magnificent, impeccably maintained 14th century castle of Spanish king Enrique Dos in the Castilian province of Salamanca in northern Spain. It was … and still is … operated by the Spanish Tourist Authority as one of a string of tourist lodgings known as paradors .
The castle’s ivy-covered walls … still in seemingly perfect condition … formed part of the defensive battlements of Ciudad Rodrigo …. A small, quiet village now, but in Enrique’s time a major walled city fit for a king.
We might as well have been courtiers of En...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Commentator Dick Meister recalls a very special Thanksgiving ...
OUTRO:Dick Meister is a longtime San Francisco journalist.
