We made our way to the oldest part of the city, the Gothic quarter, which was originally built by the Romans. Its just an amazing place to walk about and so much of the old buildings remain. The streets are narrow and there are lots of little forums and places…

Time to do some touring round the city on our own. We made our way down to Las Ramblas, this is the main street where people/ tourists gather, its 1.2kms  of tree lined pedestrian shops and stalls and set off on a hop on, hop off bus. Sitting up on…

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…

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…

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…