Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Saturday 29 September 2012 Bilbao-Guggenheim Museum

Nice breakfast included at hotel so all tucked in. Had tickets to Guggenheim for 10 am entry  so set off about 9.30am. Tram was waiting some time at station  so  Lynds went off to sort out the problem with the ticket ( leaving the other 3 of us sitting on the tram ), turned out I had bought the wrong one, she got taken off into back office with 3 men all worried about how to do the €9.75 refund which they eventually worked out but by the time she emerged the tram had left so quickly I didn’t have time to get off !! So I got off at next stop and ran back as I had her phone and bag etc. We caught the next tram in 15 min and arrived at  Guggenheim Museum and art gallery in time to meet Helen and Rod for our 10 am entry.

Amazing building with a number of exhibitions but the major one at the moment is  a David Hockney exhibition of his return to landscape painting in Yorkshire and his further adoption of new technology using an iPad app called Brushes for both initial sketching and some final work.  Absorbing and fantastic stuff including 3 iPads mounted on a wall which showed progression of 3 works plus a video conversation with him about these new works and techniques . There were several works of Yosemite and grand canyon which were of particular interest to us because of our visits to both earlier in the year. 

Some other very modernistic works and installations, some fairly wierd.  Fantastic day altogether.

Later I went for walk in old town and saw men playing pelote with flat wooden bats on a 2 sided court just off the street, slightly different to that we had seen on TV earlier when they used the curved bats.

Dinner again in old town, not very spectacular and started to rain and turned cold.