When I finally decided to find accommodation at Montserrat, I scoped some apartments for rent then prepared a potential conversation between me and the landlord for the telefono, in the hope that I could arrange a meeting at the apartment and sort somewhere to stay for the coming weeks over Navidad and año Nuevo period to avoid being a miserable Scottish bastard...
So there i was sitting at the bar in El Bruc, psyched to speak some hard core Spanish with my pad at the ready and my telefono in hand...Dialed the number and began the conversation as per my translation, then suddenly the Catalan landlord began to say things that weren't in my pad.. what the fuck!? I looked over to the other table where I saw this Spanish girl reading her climbing guide, and thought, she is a climber, she is Spanish, she will help me!.. she did.
After taking pity on me, my new friend told me of a better place to stay and we climbed for the rest of my stay on the south and north faces of Montserrat... Great company and great views in this magical place.
