Barcelona

So this was the big one!

Arrived in Barcelona - what a magic city. Walked down the Ramblas and visited Guell Palace (one of Gaudi's first commissions).

Next day headed to Montserrat (or Montsalvat in Parsifal - Wagner's Opera of the same name).

Monastery at Montserrat

The trip there was interesting - we arrived to a huge queue waiting to see the black madonna, so we headed up the mountain and linked in the Adam's Earth energies:

Then visited the black madonna. You could walk right up to her in a queue of other pilgrims asking for healing and other wishes (I guess). There were a lot of male couples - we speculated that the thin ones probably had aids and were hoping for a miracle - perhaps?

The healing loving energy in the chapel behind the statue was awesome - the strongest energy that I have felt around a sacred site.

The whole area was protected by what looked like a huge mountain giant behind the monastery.

Next day visited Gaudi's cathedral. It was stunning (while it was a bit young to feel like the old cathedrals in France and England) it was an architectural feat on steroids. The curious thing was that in order to pray (with the adam's earth grid and take a picture, I needed to go to the crypt below the cathedral (this was built before Gaudi was appointed full time) and was more traditional in design. I went down below the cathedral and was surprised to see an exact replica of the black madonna in one of the alcoves - but no one was around and certainly not the queues to the one in Montserrat.