We finally went on my walk today! My walk was called Shippers to the Indies. We saw three churches, five squares, a hospital, a tower, and most importantly the Museum of Cadiz! Some of the first things we saw were the flamenco centre, the admiral’s house, and Cathedral Square. We ended up coming back there to do all our souvenir shopping. Then we made our way down some winding streets, and a shopping avenue to the Museum of Cadiz. We went past it, to head back to the stores, and on the way we saw an oratory with two chapels and some paintings by Goya.
We made the shops before they closed, and headed back towards the museum. When we got there we ate a lunch of pizzas before going in.
The museum was cool. On the ground floor was archeology. We were able to see a variety of roman ruins as well as two giant Phoenician anthropoid sarcophaguses from the fifth century. One really interesting Roman statue was one of Trajan. Its head was high quality, and made in Rome, while the rest was just sculpted locally.
On the first floor was fine art. When we got up there the security guard motioned us over to a painting, and told us to stand in two different places. We weren’t quite sure what he meant, but he kept telling us to look at the feet of the angel in the painting. We looked at the angel across the room and tried the same thing. We then realized the angel’s legs looked longer if you looked at it from one side, and short from the other side. He also told us that a landscape had blues in it that changed if you moved.
After the first floor we went up to the second floor. It had two rooms; the first one we went into was my favorite over all. It had stages of marionettes everywhere. They had a play with the Nativity Story, one with a bull fight, and one with knights. Some were strange, and some we could tell easily what they were. It was all really cool, and while we looked Alia, Ben, and Lukas watched the TV which was showing one of the puppet shows being preformed.
The second room on the first floor was contemporary art. It had modern art; some was really good, and others were just really crazy.
We came home, and ate dinner soon after. Then we continued our routine, and went crabbing. Unfortunately the tide was in, meaning the rocks we usually climbed on were submerged or very slippery. We walked along the beach a little, and then we went swimming with our clothes on. Everyone was very excited and we swam for a little while, before going home to shower and dry off.
Tomorrow is our last full day!
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