10/17/10 Montseny!

Today I met a bunch of people at Catalunya Station.  Miriam, Evan, Alex, Emily, Lorenzo, Jack and I all went hiking on Montseny (pronounced Mount Sen).  The train ride took a little over an hour and we stopped in a random little town to get to the trail.  Miriam knew where she was going, since she had gone before with Daven.  It was chilly in the morning, but as soon as we started hiking, everyone started stripping layers.  The hike took about 2.5 hours.  A little ways from the top, there is a parking lot, so there were more people at the top than who we had seen hiking.  At the top of the mountain were the ruins of a church of some sort.  We all ate our bocadillos at the top and enjoyed the beautiful view.  The way down took about 1.5 hours.  We were trying to make it down to catch the train at 4:18 pm, but we missed it by about ten minutes.  We killed the next half hour by strolling around the town.  It looked like most of the homes in the town were vacation homes.  Most of them were shut up and there weren’t many people walking around.  It was nice to spend a day outside of the city and see what life is like in a vacation area.

            I made it home by about 8 pm.  The train took more stops on the way back than on the way there, so it was a long trip.  I enjoyed a nice dinner with Pepita and did a little reading after dinner.  I found a book called Historia de España, so I decided to start reading it just for fun.