The weather is cooler, skies are completely clear. The Las Ramblas is shady under the trees with thousands of tourists strolling around aimlessly looking at the street shows and shopping.
We checked out the Picasso Museum today. It has art from when Picasso was 11 years old and into realism to the end when he invented Cubism and played with Pointilism and some other ism-y things. Seems he really could draw, and one point in his life he actually could arrange facial features in the correct order. His art is still rather bizarre, even with the insight into the progression he made over the years. I think he must have been inspired by a flounder. That goes to show they eat way too much fish in Spain.
Barcelona is seeming very mellow after Ibiza. And that is a pleasant thing. We are just wandering and checking out the old Roman alleyways. Watched an hour of a Spanish soap opera on tv during siesta today. The show came complete with wacky slapstick, overacting, tears, kisses and domestic commercials (multiple floor cleaner, dish detergent, yogurt, soda, suntan lotion, Oscar Meyer chicken and cheese patties, and clothes detergent ads).
Thinking of ads, brings to mind one huge 15′ banner we walked by today.. a full frontal nude of a man and a woman advertising discounted clothes. You really don’t get the full monty on billboards in America. It sort of makes you do a double-take each time you walk by it. Well, especially with everything positioned at eye level.
The EasyInternet cafe is packed with people. It is getting hard to find a terminal in Barcelona. This was our third try. They have another cafe with 600 terminals, this one only 150. Think there may be something to this Internet idea of Gore’s, eh?
