Alex Kayser

“When I come to Cadaques I always stay here”

I was staying for a few days in Barcelona at a friend’s place. Some of us sat on the floor talking, a new visitor appeared in sight. She walked towards me, said hello, and told me about her and her husband going to Morocco. Suddenly, she thrusted at me a bunch of keys. I looked up in question. She said the keys belonged to her place right by the sea in Cadaques. “Go there”, she said. Quite intriguing, all she added is that there was a boat there. I called my boyfriend in Paris, he took a plane to Cadaques…so the adventure began. The place was in fact very nice, the Mediterranean blue as ever, the stones, oh well, no sand, we loved, enjoyed every part of it. Two days later, this man dressed in black from head to foot, carrying a suitcase, aside him a pretty woman, came through the door… “Hello, when I come to Cadaques I always stay here.” What to say, he looked interesting. “My name is…Hans Giger. I’m here to visit Salvador Dalí.” “You are…Hans Giger, who did Alien?”

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top left: Hans Gigger; bottom left: Josefina Ayerza;

right: Salvadore Dalí by Alex Kayser, Cadaques