Or actually we are in Northern Catalonia, Figueres is a town of Dali’s birth place, and his museum is the greatest tourist attraction here. The journey with a slow TER train through rainy northern coast of Mediterranean took five hours. Train change was at Port Bou, which was almost a former railway station. A big building, but no information of trains. The French train arrived to the other side of the building and on the other side of the station building was standing one train without any signs. But as it was the only alternative we jumped in. New railroads and stations have been built for the fast TGV and AVE trains. The TER train passed between the ocean and the marshy land, similar to Camarque, but due to a heavy rain much sceneries could not be seen.
Our hotel in Figueres is a small family run Hostal Barretina. The host does not speak English, but he translates speech using internet application. One small mistake was translating fish to a dog in Finnish. First we wondered a little, is he really serving us dog meet, but then we understood pescado is fish and the species of the fish was dogfish, and it tasted good.
The Dali museum was a very positive surprise. Earlier I had only seen the surrealistic works, but in the museum we could see the whole spectrum of his works.
Katalonia != Espanja, ainakin jos katalonialaisilta kysytään