Day3: Monserrat + TBs from Sitges!!

It was Friday the 16th and Delphine and I had planned to go to the Montserrat. Montserrat is about 30-40min away from Barcelona by train. I went to sleep at 2+ on Thursday night after my night out with Marcus, so I was really zombified the next morning when Delphine woke me up at 8ish to get ready. We took some time washing up and eating breakfast (well, i did. but come on, i'm on a vacation! haha). We only reached Monserrat at 12ish cos the train only leaves hourly and we had to take some mini railway up the mountains. It started raining, so we had our lunch first, after which we headed to the touristy grounds. 

We entered some church. Delphine says that there's a Virgin Mary in the church, so we walked in and there was what looked like a short queue at the side waiting to walk up to the 2nd floor at the front of the church to meet Virgin Mary.

 

While we were in the line,

me: so what do we do when we're in front of the mary? i'm not catholic so i don't know what to do. i think the people in this line are actually catholics and queuing up for religious purposes
delphine: i'm not catholic too but i guess we could just go and see?
me: erm ok.

about 2 minutes later, we moved forward. it was then that i got a full view on how awfully long the queue was. i didn't really wanna queue up only to end up facing mother mary and saying 'hi' (that was the only think i could think of doing, you can't take photos) and risk getting sinned. so i told delphine i'd wait for her in the church till she's done. so there i was sitting in the church, admiring the architecture and watching this guy in front of me deep in prayer. his head was resting on the backrest of the bench in front of him, he might as well be sleeping, but i'm sure he was praying.

so anyway, delphine came out after that with a korean boy who was in the line with her. His name is Hans and he's on a vacation in Barcelona as well. So we walked around for a bit and then caught the train back.

That night, i headed to Sitges to meet Manuel and J.C. the ride on the train took about 30 minutes. not long after i reached, i saw a familiar looking guy walking towards me and he was smiling so i pretty much guessed he was J.C. We said our greetings and talked for a while. My, he's one bubbly guy. I liked him immediately. about 5-10 min later, manuel arrived in his sleek BMW and the two guys started arguing in very rapid spanish about what i can only make out as manuel being late (thanks to my poor spanish).

but the guys assured me that this is how they usually speak to each other.

so we went to a little restaurant (i remember it has the name "pinky" and that tickled me a bit). had dinner and a good chat with the guys. what i enjoyed most was listening to them talk to each other in rapid spanish and trying to decipher what they were saying. i was happy i managed to pick out some words and piece them together but i definitely didn't understand everything. once in a while, manuel would turn to me to translate (even though he assumed i understood most of it).

after dinner, we walked around and the guys tried to tell me more about the little town. there was a beautiful church by the sea. 

We then spent some time taking silly photos (i seem to be doing a lot of that, aren't i).

well this time it involved another form of adventure in the air (read: Granada), as J.C. scooped me up at the count of 3. i totally didn't see it coming. these things keep happening and i'm starting to believe i'm really not that heavy after all. after walking down the narrow streets of Sitges (i love them, they're so pretty!), we headed to a pub for drinks. At 1ish, they walked me to the bus stop to take a night bus back to barcelona. it was a good night spent with great guys! :)