On the second day of our holiday we hopped on a train to Girona to see the historic centre where Game of Thrones was filmed!!! Ok I'm not that big of a fan but it did look a bit familiar to me :D Once you get to the little narrow cobblestone streets.
The Eiffel Bridge
First off we headed to one of the cathedrals in town but decided not to go in as it was 16euros! (combined ticket for both cathedrals)... Why so expensive? We did have a sneaky peek inside and compared to Sagrada (can you compare anything to it?) it was meh...
Next we headed to the Arab baths. Followed the signs until it disappeared. Where did it go? Why aren't there any more signs for it?!?!?! Then we turned around and voila it was directly behind us and only 2 euros to get in :) Mind you it is quite small but the main room makes it all worth wile.
Look at this!
Watahhhhhh
Right next to the Arab baths is a stairway to the city wall which is looooooooong and with multiple tower viewpoints. Be careful in the narrow winding steel stairs that actually tremble when you're climbing them... Scary but the views are fantastic.
Second more impressive cathedral that was featured in Game of Thrones.
Third day took us to Montserrat - a monastery up in the hills. We actually took a cable car to get to it!
We did do a little booboo and bought the wrong tickets: we wanted to get the ones that have the 2 funiculars included as well but ended up having to pay for one instead (we didn't have enough time for all of it).
First tip: arrive early! If you want go hiking in various mountain trails. Unfortunately we only had time for one path on the top of the mountain. Half due to the fact we didn't buy lunch to go as we had planned (someone got up too late) so we had to join the enormous queue at the diner and pay an extortionate price for the food there... There was supposed to be a shop in that tiny village but it was closed, probably only open during high season.
Inside the monastery
Then for some reason my travel companion decided to wear summer shoes to go hiking :D and the path marked easy wasn't that easy after all and surely half way her shoe broke... She trooped on to the next viewpoint and the top of the mountain was just there so I conquered that alone. Fell :D and scraped my arm and back thigh. Basically got a beating from a bush :D But I made it.
Making our way back to the funicular station a couple of Americans told us to take the easier way back. At first we were happy, then it looked like we are going to the wrong direction, then it wasn't as easy as they had made it seem. The path we came was really hard for only a short amount of time but this seemed to be harder for longer + going the wrong way :S it was getting late, we couldn't go back and finally we got to a proper path that twisted back to the right direction and gave us views down to the town. Basically we circled that peak.
View from the top of the mountain
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...
