Day 77 - Figueres

Awoke to clear skies a big city feel and just
relieved to be in a bed after last nights experience !

We stocked up at the nearby supermarket realising that while we could understand the occassional word in French (Vivs expertise excluded) we were going to have no hope understanding Spanish!

We had only 500 metres to walk to the highlight of Figueres the Salvador Dali museum. What an amazing place, the museum itself was partly created by Dali himself and shows a life time of works from this incredibly talented "nutcase"!

Dali's depiction of Pablo Picaasso

Every room had character, intrique and eccentricity stamped all over it. To picture the museum building consider this - external walls with hundreds of "dog turd" like designs. A roof with giant egg shells, an interior with giant bronze academy award like statuettes etc etc

The fact this guy was painting surreal art as well as mainstream art in the 1920's made it more amazing!

With our artistic spirits enhanced we settled for the most basic of human needs food !

On the recommendation of a local who claimed to have met JFK we had dinner in a marvellous outdoor setting on the Rambla Figuere's main street in the centre of town just watching life go by while partaking in Spanish Tapas cold food entrees of local delicacies a la yum cha!

With a couple of beers and some local Sangria had by the gang, well at least the alcoholic contingent, life was pretty good !

Dali Museum