 In Milan they purchased an Italian Lambretta motor scooter that winter, riding it 700 miles, across the Rivieras to Spain, where they took a ferry to the Balearic Islands.They wintered on the island of Majorca, where he fished with Majorcan trawler fishermen, gathering material for a novel.That spring they ferried to Valencia and motor scootered across Spain to Madrid, where he and his wife lived for the next 3 years.