Spanish Art & Culture

I once was shopping in a department store in Sevilla, looking for clothes...naturally. When what to my surprise and delight was something like the lamp post in Narnia. that was by itself in a forest. Do you remember when you could go into a music store in the mall and sample the cd of your choice? There was a post and you could scan in the cd. Well here was one of those posts....in like a JC Penney! So i had to listen, and what i heard didn't leave me that whole semester

Surreal Journey: Discovering Dali in Figueras Strange that I was reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway while taking the train just north of Barca, to a town known as Figueras. The first thing I saw there was what I came for, the Salvador Dali museum. Befitting enough to the likely architect, the museum was adorned with none other than gigantic eggs! You can't quote me on this but eggs in Spanish and Latin cultures refers to courage, which you certainly can see in hi

My first and only bullfight was a doozie. Not to mention the Matador was picked up and thrown by the bull, the ambience was interesting too. The seating in the arena was arranged according the weather man. Sol y Sombra means sun and shade, and thus the entire stadium was divided up. I just secretly hoped the fight would last long enough for the sun to move across the sky and mess the whole seating schematic up. Bullfighting is finally outlawed now so I was blessed to see