Sitges, a nice beach town with a lot of bright colourful people

Sitges is a very famous town near Barcelona. The journey takes about 20-30 minutes by car and it is a fantastic drive. On the way, you see some beautiful scenery and also some very ugly scenery as well. I say ugly, because you go through some ugly towns with ugly flats and terrible crowded roads. Towns like Viladecans and Gava are very ugly in central areas.

But lets talk about the good things in life. The journey also goes through some beautiful mountain passes, smooth winding roads, wonderful sea veiws etc.

When you actually reach Sitges, you kind of feel a bit disappointed in that you have come back to a town, which has a lot of ugly flats and appartments near the central areas. However, if you go to some beach areas in Sitges, you will see some amazing mansions which are owned by some very crazy rich people (probably the Barca players).

I will recommend Sitges to anyone who enjoys a town which reminds them of the UK. It reminded me of Windsor near London, because it was also historical and had narrow streets.

Try to visit Sitges when there are a lot of tourists! It gets very busy and noisy.

Summer in the City and Montserrat

It sometimes get too hot in central Barcelona (the city of Gaudi). So I need to go to a cooler place and there is no better place that Montserrat. A massive mountain range just outside the city.

There are many ways you can get to Montserrat, including train from Placa Espanya, Coaches and of course cars. You can even walk it there if you are feeling very brave (it will probably take you a good 4 hours though).

I chose to get there by train, a good choice as I am not very good at driving on scary mountain roads. And talking about scary mountain roads, the train tip became very scary once we transferred to the mountain train. Now this train was going from the bottom of the mountain to the top, and I think it took us about 15 minutes, but the journey was very frightening as when you look down the train, you see a very worrying view!

At the top of the mountain I enjoyed the cool temperature and church and other historical monuments. It was a good day out and you really appreciate the beautiful scenery that is on your doorstep. Get out of the city people, go to Montserrat and cool off!

Ciao for now. I will talk about something else next time.

Scary! Wow! Nice scenery above the clouds.