Sunday, May 27, 2012

King Kong's toilet

 Sunday May 20 – ZRH / Madrid / Gijon  Spain
A beautiful  sunny Sunday in Switzerland and I have to leave to go to Spain.  The flights are uneventful and I arrive at the hotel at 6 pm.   As I was only able to eat a very poor sandwich on the plane (at a cost of 10€) I was very famished and immediately set out in search of a place to eat.  However in Spain the restaurant opening times are very different from elsewhere (or at least India).  For lunch they open at 1pm until 4pm, then close between 4 to 9pm.  This caused me to slowly starve for a few hours.
I passed the time with a very nice walk along the sea side and up to a park overlooking the sea with a large concrete statue (by a famous artist - or at least I was told by a local).  This statue, after it was unveiled was acclaimed by all to be a great work of art, until one day a visiting dignitary commented, after being shown the statue that it looked like “King kong’s Loo”  (a big toilet).  And for evermore that was the name of the statue. 


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