Pilgrimage by 4 transports

Today Carolyn and I set out on a pilgrimage to the Serrated Mountain - Monserrat - where La Moreneta, a small carved black wood statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered in a (now sacred) cave sometime around the 11th century. We pilgrims feel very proud of ourselves because we navigated the subways, the train, the aerial cable car up the mountain and a truly heart- stopping funicular down part of the mountain to hike to the sacred cave. This is the aerial cable car in flight.


- The weather continues gorgeous, the views from the mountain are breath-taking. We needed Larry Adkins as our photographer, but Carolyn managed very well.


The benefit of choosing to be a serious pilgrim: we had our choice of standing in a mob to wait and mill around inside the church and hear the famous boys choir sing, as they do daily, at 1:00 or of standing in A Looong line to pray before the Virgin at her tiny shrine behind the church altar. We chose the Virgin - and just as we approached her altar, from the church we caught a view of the choir better than the mob in the church could see plus our prayers in the chapel floated up on the transcendent voices of the choir







Then we hiked down to the Sacred Cave (Oof, we commit ourselves to more exercise from this day forward!)



I'm writing this in the little office back at our Barcelona apartment, with an open box of chocolates, a plate of cheese and a glass of wine in front of me. This evening we plan to eat in a restaurant modeled on King Solomon's Temple. We'll report on the food later.
KItty

Location:Carrer de les Beates,Barcelona,Spain