BLOGG #28 FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN

Well here I am again after a long pause. We have left our beloved Barcelona for Bilboa -I with breaking heart to fly up to Bilboa to visit the Gugginhiem Contemporary museum.built by the famous archetect Gehry. I had no expectations but to see fabulous contemporary art. We taxied down onto  a  green plain , whisked down a  steep valley by taxi and entered a teeming prosperous city with a lovely river meandering through it. As my friend and I wandered through the city looking,of course, for tapas, my friend said" there be burghers here" and I knew exactlly what she meant. This was not a decadent city like the one we just left,  no, this was a serious city with a serious  mayor, and serious citizens.  It was May 1st so most shops were closed but we were't disheartened. In this Basque region with it's complex history of ironworkers going back to the Iron Age,there was bound to be a tapa bar open and there was one a seious one with solomn chairs out on the street. Here there was no flirty waiter taking your order, no, you had to brave the burghers at the bar to place your order- I got quite confident at this dear readers. The tapas were the best and most varied of any we had sampled, and the wine good. We sat back and looked around at the citizens, the lovely well kept streets and the interesting archetecture not unlike Switzerland-perhaps that was the wine- and down every street we could see the low mountains. O I said "I want to live here. I love this city" The four days we stayed increased my love affair, ////oh my inconstant heart. I am in love with Athens, London, Paris and now Balboa.-and why not? This city is famous for it.s food ,wine,and ingeniuty and it's sense of humour- high on my least- They call the Gugginheim the"Goog" and the big flower dog by Jeff Koons The Poop. Needless to say the Art was wonderful, the history of Bilboa fascinating and a wonderful show all about the Spanish civil war heartrending. the show is called The Mexican suitcase and if you want to know why I recommend you go see it. . so I say goodbye from Bilboa