Saturday, 26 November 2016

Gaudi to Cervantes

Gaudi's supposed masterpiece la Sagrada Familia was to me repulsive in the literal sense of the word, I could not get away from there fast enough. I don't know what it was but to me it was like a 60s fantasy film set of Conan mixed up with worm cast architecture.
I came down to the plains of La Mancha and although I haven't seen any windmills to tilt at I can imagine the huge flat sameness of the landscape could induce hallucinations. There was one small hill at Chinchilla de Monte-Aragon that stood out above the plain so I had to climb up to the castle to look at the panorama from there and the surrounding medieval town was peaceful, such a change from the madness of Barcelona.
Today I am going to the museum in Albacete and a village in a gorge somewhere before meeting up with Ian and Monique this afternoon for a good ole catch up.

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