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My Cami St. Jaume -- from Llançà to Montserrat
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[QUOTE="peregrina2000, post: 337152, member: 537"] Day 0 -- US to Barcelona. I arrived in Barcelona very early in the morning, hopped on the airport bus, which is extremely easy to use and cheap (6 or 7 euros) and was in central Barcelona well before 10 am. I did all my pre-Camino errands and was at my friends' apt. in the Eixample within an hour. I spent the day with them -- a good cafe con leche, a stroll through Gaudi-land, lunch at a macrobiotic restaurant, a visit to the Catalunya National Art Museum so I could revisit all those beautiful romanesque frescos, kid-time for after-school trumpet lessons, playing soccer in a plaza, dinner at a Colombian restaurant, and finally jet-lagged, I got into bed around 11 pm. For me, the best way to beat jet lag is to ignore it, though I usually would be in bed well before 11! Day 1 -- I was up early and after breakfast caught a 8:30 or so train from Barcelona to Llanca. There are MANY trains that do this route, but it was very hard for me to find them on the RENFE website, though I know they are there somewhere. But here is a link to Rodalies de Catalunya, the line on which the route to Llançà runs. [URL='http://rodalies.gencat.cat/en/horaris//cercador/?origenCerca=Barcelona-Sants&origen=71801&destiCerca=Llan%C3%A7%C3%A0&desti=79312&dataViatge=28%2F08%2F2015&horaIni=0&lang=en&cercaRodalies=true']http://rodalies.gencat.cat/en/horaris//cercador/?origenCerca=Barcelona-Sants&origen=71801&destiCerca=Llançà&desti=79312&dataViatge=28/08/2015&horaIni=0&lang=en&cercaRodalies=true[/URL] A few words about the starting point of this Camino. The Generalitat literature lists Port de la Selva as the starting point, but I chose Llançà, which is only 8 or 9 kms north of Port de la Selva. There are two advantages -- you can get a train direct from Barcelona (no trains in Port de la Selva), and Llançà is not as fancy a place, so prices are lower. There is a youth hostel in Llançà, but it required a prepaid electronic bank transfer (very expensive from the US), and my hostal was just a few euros more anyway. I was in my Hostal in Llançà (named appropriately the Hosta Llançà, available on booking.com) by 11 am. It is very close to the train station and is clean and cheap. I paid 24 € for a single in early June. I dropped my pack and quickly headed out to find the Camino, which is well marked and leaves from the tourist office. The tourist office is conveniently located very close to my Hostal (but not so convenient or close to the beach). From there it was about a 6 1/2 km walk up to San Pere de Rodes, an amazing romanesque monastery that is perched high up in the hills and with a great view over the Mediterranean. I knew that this was a place where I wanted to spend some time, so the best way to do that was to visit it before I actually started walking. I am SO glad I did this, because visiting San Pere as part of a 30 km walk to Figueres would not have been fun. It is true that I had to repeat a 700 m ascent the next morning, but it was well worth it. Entrance was free with my teacher ID. (This was true in many places in Catalunya more than other regions). [ATTACH=full]20581[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20580[/ATTACH] After the visit (a visit that is worth at least an hour and a half), I walked back down on a different route, which took me along the coast. It was beautiful. Llançà is not one of the high end Costa Brava resorts, but the Mediterranean is beautiful no matter where you see it from. After a tapas dinner in a bar and a glass or two of GR-174 Priorat wine, I was ready for bed. Buen camino, Laurie [ATTACH=full]20579[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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