Barcelona, Spain
Che in the flesh!

Imagine my surprise, when passing the performance artists along Las Ramblas in Barcelona, I met Che in the bronze-painted flesh!

I was happy just to snap a photo of him in one of his statuesque poses, but then he invited me up onto his perch! So here I am on El Che’s pedestal.

At the base of his pedestal is a web address that reads, www.ElCheVive.org. I know, I know. You can’t see it because it’s hidden behind the Che Spotting watermark. I typed the “El Che Vive” URL into my browser the other day and sadly, it seems this site no longer exists.

On a brighter note, though, now that I look at this picture again, I see that Che and I are holding hands! I have no memory of this. I don’t recall any hand holding. Even seeing it in the picture, I don’t remember it. I guess I was way too nervous.  

Hand holding or not, I will always remember this Che spotting. It was one of my very first spottings after having traveled in Cuba, which, of course, is where it all began, people.