Backward Villages

In order to get an accurate picture of the Spanish way of life, I also stayed for 10 days in the little fishing and market-gardening village of Campello, situated near the small Spanish city of Alicante. There the people are much poorer and shabbily dressed. However, there is no starvation there, most of the people eking out a tolerable sort of existence from fishing and tomato growing. Many of the houses are slummy, and none of the village streets or footpaths are tar-sealed. Electricity is laid on but the only water on tap is saltwater. There are several schools but many of the village children attend only spasmodically. Surprisingly a number of villages own motor bikes or scooters. Agricultural methods there and elsewhere are primitive. In the whole of my travels I saw only one tractor. Further inland I saw people living in a village of caves. So there are poorer areas than Campello.