Días de los museos
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
The time had come… museums. It was mid-week, less going on… no more carousing in the sun all day. It’s time to get cultured. The Picasso Museum was the first (and perhaps obvious), choice. I had tried going earlier in the week, but the line was rather long… time I felt could be better spent. Down the street was a ceramic art/kitchenware shop. Kind of a tourist thing, but it was nicely crafted, hand made by local artists cermamics. I’m not really big on souvenirs, as I’ve been trying to declutter my life, but if there’s something I like and it’s locally made, I might justify it to myself… so I got an ashtray and an incense burner, both of which I needed anyway. I was actually able to maintain a conversation in Spanish with the shop owner about some of the different ceramics, and a conversation about when the best time to come back to go to the museum when the line wasn’t so long. Woo! It’s getting better… Now I just need to go spend some time somewhere that they speak only Spanish, no English, and see how I fare… [read on]
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