Our apartment is just around the corner from the main Hotel, Hotel Sauce, and that is where we breakfast. A jovial lady provides a good buffet of fruit, ham and cheese, pastries and pan con tomato with fresh orange juice and good coffee.
After we had eaten, we called into the art gallery, the Museo Ibercaja Camón Anzar, which is between our apartment and the hotel, so just a few steps away. There they had a retrospective of Pilar Moré and we sneaked a photo which is part of a large work, say 5 x 6 feet. We particularly likes some of his painting on corrugated cardboard.
there was also a good collection of Goya who lived in Zaragoza in the 18th century. We saw the painting below but were unable to photograph the original as there was a security guard patrolling next to him. The photo is of a poster outside the museum. Taking photos in museums and churches seems to be standard, I guess to stop flash.
Goya also features on a mural on the back of the museum which we can see easily from out terrace.
The building itself is impressive, it was a renaissance palace dating back to 1551, we though that snapping that was OK.
Clearly, it was going to be an indoor day, so we wandered into the shopping area and into a department store, El Corte Ingles, where we stopped for a cup of tea, which unexpectedly came with toast, and then shopped for a while.
In the evening we returned to the same tapas bar as the previous evening. There were many more people, including an English family whose daughter was living in Zaragoza on a Erasmus Scholarship.
This was one of the dishes we chose, squid with Iberian ham and padron peppers with some octopus thrown in for good luck.
On our way home we wandered around and discovered the ornate wall of the Cathedral, La Seo. Lit by sodium light we would have to return the next day to be able to photograph it properly.
Pat and John on tour
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