Barcelona diary Monday 22nd June around 30 Celsius Today we challenged ourselves and decided to try a cycling tour of Barcelona. The tour took us to some places we would not have discovered by ourselves little lane sways and squares as well as the main tourist areas. We were in a group of 20 and it was a little tricky trying to keep together especially when crossing a large road. Luckily most of the way was flat so it was an easy ride. We also rode down to ...

Montserrat 23/6 Hot and sunny around 30 Today we decided to head out of Barcelona to Montserrat up in the mountains. We caught the metro to Placa d'Espanya station and took quite a while to find the R5 train platform it was as tricky as we had read in the guide. The train goes out to Manresa and took about an hour, after that we boarded a cable car up the mountain to the monastery. The Caribbean Island Montserrat was named by Christopher Columbus after the mou...

Sunday 21st June Ready to start our adventures so we headed off to get our Metro ticket and then strolled along La Rambla which a central street in Barcelona. It is a tree lined mall that stretches for 1.2km from Placa Catalunya to the Columbus monument at Port Vell. Being Sunday there was a market as well as all the shops along the street and the open air restaurants on the mall. The Columbus monument is a 60 metres high column erected in 1888. It is located a...

Arrived in Barcelona at 8.30am after 36 hours from Melbourne. Not ideal. After dropping off our bags and relaxing with a cool drink We decided to do the Barcelona Hop On Hop Off bus tour to get a feel for the layout of the city rather than walking about. Might have shut the eyes a few times on the way around but it gave us a view of the attractions and ideas for places to go back and visit. Hotel Europark is about 10 minutes walk to Plaza Catalunya the main city...