Montserrat Travel Blogs

This was the most beautiful place I have encountered in my travels so far. If there is a heaven, this just might be it. The air has a special quality to it here. I found my eyes welling in tears at the thought of the all-encompassing faith of the people that created this monastery as a symbol on the peak of a mountain.

Here are some pictures of the Capital, its very nice and well kept. In the summer this place is very crowded with torists.

Soufriere Hills, Monsterrat (volcano)

Island hopping the eastern carribbean for xmas and newyears '07/'08

This trip just for 6 days, visiting Barcelona, Valencia, Tarragona, Sitges & Montserrat.

We spent 3 weeks traveling through Spain with an old high school buddy and my daughter, Lisa. We started out driving with our friends for 5 days then joined a Globus bus tour in Madrid. Great trip, saw a lot of Spain and had a great time!

Flew to Barcelona, drove around the NE Spanish countryside, stopped in Andorra, Valencia for the Festival of Fallas and to France to visit Carcassonne and Marseille

Viva la Barcelona! Few shots from this great city:)

Saturday One of the things I really wanted to do in Barcelona was travel out to the Montserrat monastery, about an hour outside of Barcelona. I'm fascinated by monasteries and other religious communities and I also wanted to check out the hiking, since it's up in the moutains. I figued I'd be goi…