Picasso in Barcelona

We visited the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The exhibition shows works from archives, including Picasso’s early work. I did not know that Picasso developed a tremendous talent for drawing and painting at a young age. In his early teens, Picasso already made stunning drawings and oil paintings. The exhibition further illustrates Picasso’s development into cubism.

Also, an interesting part of the exhibition is Picasso’s visual examination of Las Meninas, Velazquez’s famous painting.

Recommended. The museum is located in the beautiful old neighborhoods of El Born and Barri Gòtic, which you’ll want to see while in Barcelona anyway.

The hill behind the campground

We walked a small lap around and over the ridge behind the campsite today after a drizzly start. (Strava enabled too late)

A paved rocky path turns into asphalt after two kilometers (counterclockwise). It is, at times, very steep, but the view is great. In the forest, Eucalyptus trees.

We walk a few hundred meters along the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostella. The last bit along the road is less.

Slagersgehaktbal

Veenhuizen. Geprobeerd onderweg in gezelschap foto’s maken zonder asociaal te zijn. Dat valt niet mee.

Bij het begin van de tweede helft van een voetbalwedstrijd van V.V. Veenhuizen lopen we langs het veld. Een speler trapt af, tikt de bal naar medespeler. Medespeler geeft de bal een loeier. De bal zweeft over de keeper het doel in. Snelste doelpunt ooit.

Een biertje bij Maallust, en slagersgehaktbal en nacho’s met toppings (groot) op de verwarmde kussens (een nieuw fenomeen voor ons leggards).

Onze gezellige overburen verlaten het terras zonder te betalen, blijkt als de bediende komt vragen of ze al erg lang weg zijn.

Later in Roden. In de gang van het hotel ruikt het naar de gebakken vis die beneden in de keuken wordt bereid. Hou de douchedeur dicht anders gaat het brandalarm af.

Strenuous fields

Near Warmenhuizen, a woman walks in the meadow with a wheelbarrow. In the wheelbarrow lay wooden poles and sit two children. The woman walks seemingly effortlessly with the cargo through the field. Near a farm, a tunnel runs under the road. I suspect the tunnel was made for the purpose of bringing the cattle from the farmer on the other side of the road to the pasture on this side of the road. The tunnel is flooded. The fields are austere. Large sections are covered with plastic. What is underneath? Corn? Lettuce? A futuristic structure, what I suspect is supposed to be a covered horse walker.

Velsen-Noord

The competing cruise ships of DFDS and Virgin seem to be tapping each other, but it is only a trick of the eye. The Chesterfield on the terrace waits for tourists. Cormorants sit in a row on the pier, waiting for something not to happen. Occasionally they fly up to clatter a string of shit down on the pier. Further down the beach, work is underway on something that looks like a part of an oil rig. Tata’s smokestacks were spewing steam, hopefully just steam. Residents of a beach house have already run errands and are plodding from a stuffed IKEA bag through the loose sand.