After leaving Montserrat we had a nice relaxing drive back to Barcelona and stopped off to visit Park Guell – basically a high end real estate development gone wrong. Park Guell was developed by one of the wealthiest men in Barcelona to be a luxurious housing estate of 60 blocks…
Month: September 2016
Barcelona Day 2 -3 – Montserrat cont…
One of the things I really wanted to do on this trip was hear the famous boys choir at Montserrat. They do not sing each day in the church and when they do its only for about 5 – 10 minutes. We made our way into the packed church just…
Barcelona -Day 2-2 – Montserrat
When you first see Monserrat it just draws your eye to it, its different to the surrounding countryside and just dominates the landscape. We were now on our way to visit the a Benedictine monastery at the top of that mountain About half way up the mountain now and if…
Barcelona Day 2- 1 city sights
Today we toured in a small group of just four of us with our own driver. It was so much easier than a big bus tour and he gave us a great insight into the local Catalan history as he drove us around the major sights of Barcelona in the…
Dali Museum
After a nice drive through the countryside we arrived at the Dali Museum. The statue at the entrance… This picture is actually a nude of Dalis’ wife, Gala, when you look at it with the naked eye, but when you look at it through the camera it becomes a picture…