Too Much Nick

Rach and I are visiting Spain and Portugal.

Today I spent five hours in an art museum. I started getting annoyed at Rubens, El Greco, et al for painting too much Jesus and not enough juicy battle scenes. Luckily many of the bible scenes have everyone dressed anachronistically, so baby Moses is being found in the Nile by, like, Shakespeare’s wife and her friends.

I bought a toy that you fling six stories into the air and it floats back down. They sell them to tourists for two euros in the Union Squareish Plaza de Mayor, next to the caricaturists and shitty paintings of Don Quixote. The vendors make weird animal/baby “meep” noises, as if it’s a tic.

We had dinner at a restaurant with the tagline “Hemingway never ate here.”

Also there’s a park with a rectangular pond, which has casual rowboat renters but also serious men doing laps in kayaks.