June 2015: Spain - climbing trip with school
Barcelona - Monserrat - Rodellar - Benas - Tossa del Mar - Barcelona
Though different from most trips on the portal, we did travel overland and the guys I went with were game for staying off main roads and making the transit between areas as much of an adventure as the destinations.
In Barcelona we did what most tourists do. We saw Las Ramblas and the famous Boqueria market.
We saw the famous Sagrada Familia at midnight and then, somehow, ended up locked in the Metro at 1am. We were rescued by a very unhappy station director who did not find our predicament as interesting as we found it. We still don't understand how we managed to end up there. I think we missed the last train and instead of realizing that it was the last one and leaving, we waited on the platform while above us they shut the gates rightly expecting that everyone would have left already.
Next day we went back to the airport to pick up our overland vehicles: 2 brand new Seat Leones. And yes, they were manuals and diesel!, though ground clearance was an issue. We found a supermarket and bought food for the next seven days and did what everyone else there does - packed our cars to the gills, made lunch on our overlanding tables (hoods) and mixed trailmix in a trash bag in the parking lot. Check out the great roof boxes we had at our disposal.
And then we headed out to our first climbing area: Monistrol de Monserrat.
Barcelona - Monserrat - Rodellar - Benas - Tossa del Mar - Barcelona
Though different from most trips on the portal, we did travel overland and the guys I went with were game for staying off main roads and making the transit between areas as much of an adventure as the destinations.
In Barcelona we did what most tourists do. We saw Las Ramblas and the famous Boqueria market.
We saw the famous Sagrada Familia at midnight and then, somehow, ended up locked in the Metro at 1am. We were rescued by a very unhappy station director who did not find our predicament as interesting as we found it. We still don't understand how we managed to end up there. I think we missed the last train and instead of realizing that it was the last one and leaving, we waited on the platform while above us they shut the gates rightly expecting that everyone would have left already.
Next day we went back to the airport to pick up our overland vehicles: 2 brand new Seat Leones. And yes, they were manuals and diesel!, though ground clearance was an issue. We found a supermarket and bought food for the next seven days and did what everyone else there does - packed our cars to the gills, made lunch on our overlanding tables (hoods) and mixed trailmix in a trash bag in the parking lot. Check out the great roof boxes we had at our disposal.
And then we headed out to our first climbing area: Monistrol de Monserrat.