Dali

Dali was a genuine Catalan artist, born and raised.  But his allegiances to Franco and his extreme narcissism are kind of a turn-off.  Additionally, the Dali museum in Figueres was a let down.  Packed and poorly layed out.  More show than substance.

More interesting was the Toy Museum down the street from Dali.  There, we learned about the Catalan obsession with scatology.  They even include an ornament in the nativity scene!

Before the museum, we had lunch at a Moroccan cafe.  The dudes who ran it spoke Arabic, but our dialects were so different that we just spoke Castellano instead.  Interesting, no?