6 am, still tired. Janette I both had the afternoon shift, so we decided to go see the Ciudad del Cultura. It is the huge modern complex on the hill we can see from our flat. We decided to walk. Well that might not have been so bad, if we hadn't got off track. Somehow, we ended up coming up the back way and even hiking up a steep dirt track that reminded me of the Camino and had me wishing I had brought my poles.
We finally got close enough to take some pictures of one of the buildings:
At the time we were taking the picture of the stunning building we were standing on a very undeveloped dirt heap. Then when we decided to look for the entrance. Jeannette thought we should go right through a break in the fence. I had never really entered a museum that way, bit hey, mayor this soul debe a different experience.
We ended up trapped in on an enclosed construction road. We went around the whole complex on in this trap. We couldn't figure out how to get out without going all the way back around, and this was a pretty big complex. Finally I saw the entry gate for construction trucks, surrounded by bushes. I thought with those bushes, there is a chance that they wouldn't run the fence very far. So I went to check it out, while Jannette was saying we should go down over these boulders. I got to the gate and we could in fact squeeze around the gate through the bushes. So I went through and called to Jannette to follow. Meanwhile, I was thinking, with what's going on in the world we might just get arrested, or at least taken in for questioning. We were laughing at the circumstances we had created.
But we finally got in. This place is pretty amazing, and it's only about half done. There was a lot great art work everywhere, including the buildings themselves.
There was one piece that liked like o vortex of books and journals or notebooks:
There was an exhibition on textiles and one on fashion in Spanish history.
I also found these artful urinals. Really I had used the women's rest room and was just passing by the men's rest room when these caught my eye.
So then we walked down to our flat and got ready for work. There wasn't time for a nap. While we're engaged in this crazy outing the temperatures were slowly rising to about 95 degrees.
So we went to work in the office. We were both kind of dragging. After work we were walking through the plaza. Out side the Parador- Reyes de lid Catolicis, there was a wedding party waiting for the bride to come down to walk to the Cathedral for the ceremony. There was a band playing Irish jigs at the Parador and another band at the Cathedral. Plus there was a plane flying over trailing a banner wishing them luck. It was about a hundred degrees and everyone was decked out in formal attire. They must have been roasting. And I don't think they were part of the 99%. lol
So on a non Camino day, I walked about 9.5 miles. Think I'll go to sleeo now.
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