Today was the day to visit Montserrat, we had thought about a formal tour but after some consideration, and a lot of research on Mr Google we decided to do it ourselves. To be honest it was very easy, easier than we expected. The day started with a tram trip to the local underground station, from where we took the underground to the Placa Espania to catch the R5 train line to Montserrat. All too easy and 3 different transport types so far. There are 2 stations y...

After 2 days on the bus we determined we would explore and the first item on the itinerary was to be the La Sagrada Famila, this was the dream of Gaudi, and has continued since his death to be constructed. However we failed to do our research properly and when we turned up at the ticket counter were told we should have booked, the only times free for entry were 6:15pm or later, and here it was 10am in the morning. That will teach us. So we booked for 6:15 and de...

After almost 6 weeks of traveling we finally got absolutely soaked with rain. It was almost monsoonal. The day started strangely as we were walking to get onto the bus for the 2nd day of our open top bus ticket we remarked about how there was no traffic, and all of the shops were still shut, but as it was only just 10am we thought this may be normal in Barcelona. Alas no, we were variously told it was Columbus day, or Spain National Day, it is in fact both. Spa...

After the long day of travel, which ended with at taxi cab ride only rivaled by a cab ride once taken in Xian with Bruce and Anne, we decided to follow our norm for a new city by taking an open top bus tour. We are lucky as there is a bus stop for one of the open top bus companies a couple of hundred meters from the hotel. The bus has 2 routes labelled the Green and Orange, we hopped on and as our bus stop is on the Green route decided to do that one today. This...