Day trip to Montserrat by Tarun

We also took a day trip to Montserrat, which has the holiest Catalan pilgrimage of (Black) Virgin Mary. It’s a very beautiful place with a magnificent church on top of a hill. The church seemed to be quite a hit with couples trying to get married. We must have seen atleast 3 weddings within a span of couple of hours hosted in the church. A real interesting thing happened when we were waiting in the queue to visit the sacred statue of black virgin, we ended up a meeting a guy who copy writes Rick Steves guide books. Tarun was so happy to meet this guy that he decided to ask for a picture with him. Matthew was generous enough to oblige.

In addition to going to the church and visiting the holy pilgrimage, we decided to hike down to Santa Cova (the statue of the black virgin was originally kept at this small cave). The hike was short and sweet, we ended up meeting another Indian family on our hike, (Arvind, Arti were on a week’s trip to Spain along with their daughter Anjali). They were settled in the Netherlands and were kind enough to extend an invitation to us when we are there. Let’s see if we get a chance to trouble them with our visit :).