Old Town Eureka

This summer I was hosting my friend Gema, a Spanish actress, visiting from Madrid, while she was in town for a mutual friend's wedding. It is always eye-opening to see a place you know well from the perspective of a visitor, and while I think that Old Town Eureka has a unique charm that is not often found in the United States, I enjoyed hearing that Gema shared my opinion. "Eureka," she said (in the thickest of Spanish accents) as we walked down 2nd Street by the Vance Hotel, "It is nice. It is a very sweet village, very pretty." But it sounded very authentic coming from her, I don't know how, but when she says "village," it has two j's.