Montserrat

I had heard about Montserrat from Li, who went to Barcelona a month before Indi and I did. For an atheist to go up the mountains to see a basilica, it must be pretty special. And it is.

The staff at the train station kept referring us to other people (total spoken to: 4) but finally we went on the hour-long train ride and the nice cremellera trip up the mountain.

We caught the (supposedly-boys-but-not-all-boys, nothing figurative there) choir singing in the basilica, ate our takeaway sandwiches, then took the cable car on the way down. No time (or money) for the funicular, but that must be pretty nice.

What amazed me is how nice the facilities were. Could the Benedictine monks be behind this? It's probably the work of the Abadia de Montserrat 2025 Foundation, which oversees the operations.