Barcelona was brilliant - a great city. Gareth and Bec joined Nik and I for an excellent 3 days of drinking, eating, walking, drinking, eating, eating, drinking and the same again the next day.
Nik and I then drove out to Montserrat - a place we both knew little about. It turned out to be more than what we'd hoped - a mass of conglomerate towers only 60km from Barcelona. The tourist sections are rolling in cash - and tourists - but the campsite there is a world apart (it's not marked on any of the signs!). Thanks to some good advice, we got an excellent few days climbing in there.
We then returned to Marseille via a night in a little Spanish village called Estana, where we walked up to the Sierra del Cadi (Spanish Pyranees) - and wished we had our mountaineering gear with us.
Back In Marseille we spent the last two days climbing two classic Calanques routes that were on our 'tick list'. Both were absolutely stellar. And tomorrow we leave again, for Verdon.
Nik and I then drove out to Montserrat - a place we both knew little about. It turned out to be more than what we'd hoped - a mass of conglomerate towers only 60km from Barcelona. The tourist sections are rolling in cash - and tourists - but the campsite there is a world apart (it's not marked on any of the signs!). Thanks to some good advice, we got an excellent few days climbing in there.
We then returned to Marseille via a night in a little Spanish village called Estana, where we walked up to the Sierra del Cadi (Spanish Pyranees) - and wished we had our mountaineering gear with us.
Back In Marseille we spent the last two days climbing two classic Calanques routes that were on our 'tick list'. Both were absolutely stellar. And tomorrow we leave again, for Verdon.
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