Dali Tattoo

I got out of the house long enough on Wednesday to take the train up to Figueres so I could check out the Dali Museum up there. As usual I missed the train I wanted to take (but in this case only had to wait an hour) and got there around 2. Yet another word of advice: if you go to Figueres to see the Dali Museum please do some research in advance and print yourself out a map or something. Don't just assume you'll be able to leave the train station and magically find it. When you leave the station there's a nice little sign that points that way, but that's pretty much the only one. After 90 minutes of wandering, and asking directions from no less than 4 people, I was starting to wonder if the whole thing was some elablorate surrealist hoax (or is that something the dadaists would be more likely to do...Carrie? Shannon?) and that maybe the museum didn't exist at all.
Finally, FINALLY I found it (and it's pretty unmissable - a red building covered in yellow...I'm not sure what they are...croissants? Probably not croissants...the whole thing is topped with giant white eggs. Very cool looking.) and made my way inside.

There's a big courtyard in the middle with a huge sculpture. A guy stood up on the platform and pulled up his pantleg to display his Dali tattoo and pose for a photo. Apparently it didn't turn out very well because he left and then came back five minutes later to do the same thing.





The interior of the museum is amazing...there are about 22 rooms absolutely crammed with things to look at: paintings, sculpture, drawings, lithographs. One room is mostly taken up by one architect's attempt to reproduce the painting "Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment" as an Apartment. It's pretty cool. To see it from the right perspective you have to climb up a ladder to a platform and look through a large lens.





I'm finally leaving Barcelona tonight on the night ferry to Palma (on the island of Mallorca). Because I'm cheap and tickets are more expensive if you don't book more than 48 hours in advance, I've taken a seat rather than a bed for this trip. I hope I don't live to regret that decision...7 hours on a ferry overnight with no bed? I'll let you know.