Posted by john blackwelder on August 15, 19103 at 19:53:20:

In Reply to: Hemingway Hotels in Spain posted by Graeme on July 07, 19102 at 12:10:39:

: I' m currently writing a book about Hemingway in Spain. Can anyone give me the exact address of the hotel Florida in Madrid which features so prominently in EH's Civil War writings. I know it was demolished in the 1960's- hence my difficulty in getting the exact location. I've got the street, but not thr number.

: Also, can any one give me the exact address of the Hotel Miramar in Malaga, also demolished, but a favourite EH watering when living with Bill Davis in 1959.

AS A NAVY ENSIGN, I LEFT THE USS MT KINLEY IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES AND WENT TO THE MIRAMAR HOTEL ON A SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON (SUMMER 59, I BELIEVE IT WAS AUGUST AND MR. HEMMINGWAY WAS SITTING AT THE BAR AND INVITED ME OVER AN BOUGHT ME A COUPLE DRINKS AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT MY SHIP ECT AND WHERE I WAS FROM. MIRAMAR WAS NOT FAR FROM DOCK WHERE OUR SHIP WENT ALONG SIDE AND NOT A GREAT DISTANCE FROM BULL RING OR MIRAMAR. I HAD THE DUTY THAT DAY AND ONLY WENT ASHORE WHEN AN OFFICE RETURN AND RELIEVED ME AND ALLOWED ME TO LEAVE SHIP
BAR WAS FULL OF LOCALS, I STOOD OUT, AND I WAS ALONE AT BAR AND HE CALLED ME OVER.

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