Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Art for art's sake

Having refrained from butter and sugar for a year, breakfast was soon to reacquaint me. The plan was to have a couple of pieces of toast, but all out food warfare soon took place. Stupid Krause buffet code of practice. It started with what I thought was butter in a little container. Turned out to be a chocolate based spread, and once you've had chocolate on toast, nothing after it seems bad. I found the real butter, which needed toast and jam and fruit and tea and juice and rolls as an accompaniment to go with it. Didn't eat the donut though. It is waiting on the bed to be consumed at 10pm.
So fully stuffed we crossed town to start our tour to.......an art museum. I really have to start putting more input into planning these holidays. On the way we are talking to our guide for the day and are talking about Riley working at Zodiac. At that precise moment we pass a building with the same Zodiac emblem. So onto the Dali museum. From the info given by the guide, he was weird. This was confirmed by the art. But it was good and now I officially have some culture. From here it was to lunch in what became another eatfest. We were told how to rub the garlic, squeeze the tomato, pour the olive oil, sprinkle the salt onto the toast and to eat with aioli. She forgot to tell us to stop eating. This was followed be a spring onion mousse thingy. Then Annette had pork, I had rabbit and they had to force feed us the crema de catalan. Our first Catalan feast and we both ate too much.
Luckily we then got to walk around Girona to burn some calories. A very interesting town invaded by Romans and the Moops (or the Moors for non-Seinfeld fans). Walked through the cathedral, around the city walls to stop further invasions and had a quick look at the shops. And what souvenier do you buy in one of Spains most cultural towns? A Ramones tshirt of course. By around 5 we headed for home.
Still bloated by lunch which finished at 330pm we ended up buying some bread meat and cheese for sandwiches. So as what I think is day 3 about to end I must contemplate when I might be able to "go" again or just as Kramer in Seinfeld, will i need to use the dreaded apparatus? Might have to just eat fruit tomorrow for breakfast.





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