We spent the day outside of Barcelona on a tour to a winery, a big mountain/basilica and a seashore party town.
Our first stop was at the Torres Winery. This is the largest winery in Spain. Not being real big wine drinkers, we'll say that this part of the tour was "educational."
After that, we drove to Montserrat. This is a mountain that is composed of magnificent rock formations. There are buildings about 5 kilometers up the mountain. These buildings include a monestary, museum, boys choir/music school, hotel and more. A train/tram took us up to the monestary. This was quite impressive!
An hour's drive from Montserrat was the town of Sitges. This is a resort town right on the Mediterranean Sea that is known for its restaurants, shops and night life (think Bourbon Street in New Orleans or Pleasure Island in WDW). This town was just "coming to life" as we were leaving at around 8pm tonight.
It was a long day & the weather was a bit cooler than it has been during our time here.
On a side note, language has not been an issue throughout our entire time in Spain. The local folks we have encountered has spoken some dilect of Spanish and English. Many have also spoken German.
Click on the picture below to view pictures and captions of some of today's activities.
