What’s going on is usually the first question you ask yourself when you look at a Salvador Dali painting. Where is it going on is usually an easier question to answer, as I discovered a few years ago. The Catalan landscape Dali got to know as a boy — the fertile plain of Empordà and the craggy promontories of the Costa Brava — features repeatedly in his work.
In the narrowest bit of niche marketing I’ve seen for a while, a new venture, Time+Space Cadaqués, is offering holidays in that landscape combining “surrealist art, inspirational conversation and an extraordinary gastronomic adventure”. Guests will stay in a villa close to where Dali lived, be given private tours of his house, his Theatre-Museum and Cadaqués, and be cooked for by Paco Pérez, a disciple of Ferran Adrià, the man behind El Bulli. It sounds like an interesting package, if not a cheap one: five days for 2,350 euros per person sharing – and that’s not including flights.