TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

miércoles, abril 14, 2004

11:26 AM
Posted by jodi rose

adios barcelona

last few days here turned into a whirl of activity. returned to comparatively balanced energy level and emotional eqiulibrium almost restored.
monday evening that beautiful stormy golden light, wandered down to passeig del born and my favourite smoky locals cafe - every public space here is smoky, except the fabulous gelateria salon we ended up in last night, having delectable fragola and chocolate gelato, after the fantastic syrian restaurant in gracia area - where I ran into Matt, just back from camping and having a backgammon tournament with his friend Mauve. Had a campari and rave with them, arranged to meet back there ridiculously early next morning - 11 am, what was I thinking.... went to the leigh bowery exhibition together, which I had just missed in sydney. It was on here at the textile museum in montcaldo, just past the picasso museum, and totally inspiring - such a wild, solid phsyical presence in these insane clothes that he made, although they had been displayed in stick figure female mannequins which looked really weird. watched the videos of various nightclub performances, and an art gallery happening which involved leigh being dressed in a wig-mask with a sequin red clown nose and white hooded eyes, two assistants then lacing him into a lyrca body suit thing with multiple lacings up the back of the legs, on the arms and a built-in corset. During this, the female assistant stripped off her classy gallery chic clothes and danced naked (except for her platform shoes and a strap-on) in the other room, swigging from a beer bottle and doing stripper-pole dance moves. Once dressed, Leigh left the gallery. Also saw the clip for ´walk this way´, which was hilarious.

Managed to take in 3 of barcelona´s gastronomic delights last night, starting with the famous sardines at tapas bar behind the shop - written up regularly as one of the top eating experiences in europ - just down from the blue window which was picasso´s studio once (and round the corner from carrer avinyon, which peter tells me was the inspiration for painting demoiselles dávignon, so even though I didn´t make it into the picasso museum, he´s around....) drinking red wine from those jugs with a long pouring nozzle, very tricky, then the syrian restaurant and gelato. delightful.

am now ready to go home and sleep in my own bed for a week, so it´s been a successful travel experience.

xxxxx jro