My friend marrianne air hostess on Swiss air and who I met in Pune 10 years ago flies down for 3 days… we go on our adventure…get lost… this sweet couple hears us talking English and they offer to take us to the right bus stop… he’s Egyptian studying animation. she’s Italian studying animal behaviour… they are so friendly, walk us to where we need to go, laughing all the way…
The take us across the market … mainly immigrants selling on the floor on bed sheets… clothes shoes bags etc… and like India they are wrapping it all up fast.. I turn around… there’s a police car…
Ooh the bus …we pass wonderful sights… see a big restaurant filled with lots of people .. jump off… and have tapas taps… little plates of starters…and paella… mariannes look as she sees the giant prawns !!!
The waitress has om mani padme om tattooed…
We go off to the miro museum…from the extra terrestrial to who welcomes us outside
Joan Miró i Ferrà : (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. (wikipedia)
The museum shop has everything with miro on it…from watches, to eye glasses to stick up pictures….these guys really know how to bring out stuff that people would like to have.
On our way back….
The highways are sealed so that the apts above dont see the cars…what an idea!!!
Mira's Magical Mystical Tour 