Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Montserrat

Next I spent a day in Montserrat about 1.5 hours outside Barcelona.
Montserrat is known for its fantastic climbing, and its famous Jesuit monastery.
One can either take a cable car up, or the funicular. I opted for the cable car, as from the monastery, there are 2 more funiculars going further up.
It was nice to do some geocaching in mountainous terrain again for a change.

Some of the rock formations, which individually did not come out as great photos, but make a nice collage. As you can see, I have a new photo editing software, so you'll have to forgive me as I experiment with it.

Very interesting. I have never seen Jesus hanging on cords before, at a delightful little chapel on the edge of a cliff.

Some more experimenting with photo effects back home.

The monastery from above.

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Chapel of St Joan

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The Via del Cruces was a walk filled with various representation of Jesus on the cross, including some very interesting modern art style metal sheet reliefs

At the bottom, I was freezing in the mist, cursing myself for not bringing warmer clothes, but as the cable car went up, we got through the clouds and its was sunny up top, with great views over the clouds.


Some more interesting scenes in the clouds
An angel appears before Jesus

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello there russell! not sure if you'll recall my name, i'm the fella from the london-girona flight + ride to barcelona with sean. looks like you had an amazing time in that town as well. i finally took the time to go over my moleskine and just found the directions to your blog and sean's site. great pictures of casa batlló, i ended up not going there... the day i was thinking about doing it i had the worst hangover of my life, after an absynth night at café marsella.
i got some stuff on my photo blog, but i lost most of my barcelona photos because my camera had a problem right there and i only noticed afterwards... check it out: flickr.com/felmagalhaes
it was pleasure to meet you guys, in spite of the rush, that ride was really very friendly.
peace,
felipe

Graeme said...

wow, some fantastic photos and cool effects - very nice! Place looks amazing

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