Picasso and Barcelona
Picasso lived in Barcelona for several years, and there is a museum of paintings and some ceramics. It is in the old Gothic quarter and very well done. He was a very young man, only 21 at the time of his departure. Thus, these works are not abstract ones you think of May. They are very realistic and inspiring. I would like to return to this data collection, if lucky.
We are headed in Antibes before this trip is done, and will see the museum, too!
The port was a big attraction for us, we thought it would, but I think we started to feel a bit trapped in the soil of Krakow. We need the Catalan sun! This area has been revived in 1992 Olympics, and is full of shops and sailboats. A good lunch at the water’s edge was a bit cold, but as I said the sun … The Ramblas is a pedestrian area that links the Plaça de Catalunya to habrbor. At the end it is the monument to Christoper Columbus. There was one at the top of the column 197ft/60m high, pointing to the sea where he returned to after his first trip. Spain’s Queen Isabella funded the company.
A swing was going through the port, the air of a change partner type of thing, people danced, and even more to watch. We expected to dance in Spain, but not this “american” style.
Along the Ramblas right that the heads of the port are the small market of flowers and birds. Even with few terminals hamsters Poor rooster was imprisoned in the small cage, and the pigeon is free, but with it the expectation of the cage
and little critters. Life in town is not big on animals, we saw many children with their parents to choose their own little pet.
We are loving these markets in European cities, and the market in Barcelona is exceptional, the sea was the freshest I have seen. I could hear the little shrimps and crabs and lobsters to call for help! “bring us back to the sea”
The food was great, although we could not quite understand the server, and could not understand it very well. Thus, our tapas turned out to be an assortment of what we thought we had ordered. This was not a surprise, we rarely know what we ordered in restaurants and cafes. It’s all good!
We went to a concert of Spanish guitar. It was in the cellar of an old chapel of the church in the Gothic Quarter. Flaminco not, but the soft music. The tastes and sounds are the joys of travel.