Today was mostly free time, which was
a nice, relaxing thing after the big, busy day yesterday. After
breakfast at the hotel we boarded the bus and went back to Manresa to
see the famous Benedictine abbey, Monistrol de Montserrat, which was
famous for its black-skinned Virgin Mary and its beautiful abbey
built in a remote location at the top of a mountain. We took many
lovely photographs of the views from up there, both on the way to and
from the mountain by bus. After a relatively short tour of the abbey
itself, we had a few hours to wander around, which we used to do a
little bit of parkour, but mostly to hike around the mountain itself,
which was both tiring and fun, and parts of it a little freaky when
you could see how far down you'd fall if you slipped and fell off the
cliff. I mean, there were rails at the highest parts, but not
everywhere was overrun in precautionary installations, which I
actually kind of liked because they seemed to trust people not to be
idiots. It was a fun mountain to hike around, and we took a cable
car to and from the start of the trails.
Back on the bus, we headed to
Barcelona once more for lunch and free time in the city center again.
Bobby and I used this time to do parkour. We never got a real
response from parkour people in Barcelona, so we just wandered around
on our own, and visited some spots we'd written down earlier from
just driving around and noticing them, and also looking at hotspot
maps online to figure out what there was around. We found quite a
few nice spots for parkour and spent the afternoon jumping around and
getting some decent footage, which Bobby plans on making into a video
later. We had pizza and crepes for lunch at some point after
training, and then met up with the group to have dinner at another
seaside restaurant. We had the usual tuna/potatoe ball and bread
with tomatoes on it for appetizers, and supper itself was chicken and
something else I don't remember...I also don't remember dessert. We
were in one of those outdoor tent things again, and there were people
trying to get our attention through the clear walls to sell shit,
like flowers and hats. They were relentless and rather annoying.
There was also a guy singing and playing accordion, which some of the
people at the other tables invited in to entertain them, but I'm not
sure they realized that they had to give him money now. Our table
largely ignored him, because we didn't ask for him to come by, and
honestly didn't want to bother. After returning to the hotel, Bobby
and I went out to do some parkour after dark in the areas surrounding
the hotel and then went for a nice moonlit walk on the beach on our
last day in Barcelona.
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