Pat rests up before tackling another museum

Barcelona 2010: Wednesday

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May 24th 2010
Wednesday was our least active day. We went to the Picasso museum in the morning and i'm glad we did. We almost skipped it because we had heard it was not as nice as the one in Paris which we have already been to. But I read it had his renditions of Las Meninas and our Spanish book talks about how Picasso did his own versions of that masterpiece so I thought it would be cool to go and check i ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more