Egyptian Museum - Divine Words
Barcelona has a small privately run Egyptian museum the Museu Egipci de Barcelona. There was an exhibit on about the french archelogist Jean-François Champollion who manged to translate the hieroglyphics; he established that they are phonetic. On the display, was some of his notebooks. Last year, the BBC did a docu-drama about Egypt that featured the men and women who explored Egypt and translated the writing and of course there was a program about monsieur Champollion.
I thought it would be nifty to see these books; unfortunately for me the museum display was not very English speaking friendly. I keep telling myself that I should improve my Spanish.
Nonetheless, I had a good look around the museum.
Biography of Jean-Francois Champollion
Movie - living and food
I then went to another concept restaurant that I read about in b-guided> for lunch. The idea was that this restaurant was to be like eating in your living room. All the food is served in bowls. I was hoping to see what kind of films they screened here. They did put on a DVD of some artistic film of a woman reclining on a bed or was it a chaise longe (you get the idea). The waitress was telling me how they do regular club nights on weekends. I would like to visit this place again at night. I had a really nice fruit salad for a starter; it was not just fruit but also green vegetables. I had the monkfish as a main course. I thought the monk fish was prepared in a way more suitable for the winter. It tasted very out of season to me; it was quite hot and stodgy with potatoes. It would have been much nicer with a vinaigrette dressing like a Japanese sunomono dish.
I felt very mellow when I left the restaurant and proceeded on my way; it was quite sunny and warm outside but just down the street at the intersection there was a man who had been riding a scooter knocked out unconscious sprawled on his back or worse in the middle of the road; he was being attended by an ambulance crew. He was not moving at all that I could tell from where I was. I like to think he was just unconscious.