in spain
now we are even more terrified as michael has been reading all the internet sites about street crime in barcelona however after consulting the very nice sales people at the barcelona north face store ( only clothing) we were referred to a local climbing store we were able to find the place and a local climbing dude sold us a small guide and gave us the beta for easy climbs in montserrat all in spanish of course which caused some consternation how hard is this really how to get down etc etc a number of connections (metro train cable car cog train trail) got us to gorro frigi (a conglomerate dome) where we were able to find the first bolt of a mellow five pitch climb it turned out much as we thought it had been described and all had a good time even diane weather was coming in as we topped out and the rain hit us just before we got back to the cog train down it seems a good area and we did not see one other climber so we do not understand “never again” walter bonatti he must have been having a bad day
after more tourism and a spa day (all in beautiful weather) we turned south to begin climbing for real and of course it began to rain for real like a cow pissing on a rock and it does not look like it is going to stop for some time so now we are holed up in a nice hotel in medieval montblanc but we can still wine tour which is what diane wanted to do anyway