5/5 Clara M. 1 year ago on Google
--
I
took
the
half-day
tour
w/cogwheel
train,
Anays
was
my
guide
--
This
tour
has
the
ease
and
relaxed
flow
of
something
that
has
been
well
organized.
This
is
noticeable
in
the
big
things,
like
the
schedule
that
has
been
well
tuned
to
offer
a
good
mix
of
guided
and
unguided
parts,
but
also
in
small
details,
like
how
each
group
that
came
with
the
same
bus
uses
a
different
route
through
the
locations,
how
the
guides
are
very
relaxed
and
clearly
know
what
they’re
doing,
and
how
the
information
email
covers
everything
very
well
and
even
offers
an
American
phone
number.
Montserrat
is
the
amazing,
badly-hidden
secret
of
Cataluña.
As
in:
it’s
clearly
very
famous
within
the
region,
but
I’m
not
sure
if
I
had
heard
of
it
from
my
Spanish
family
or
if
the
name
reminded
me
of
the
font
family.
Either
way:
beautiful,
historically
significant,
and
it
was
a
nice
surprise
to
stumble
upon
an
ancient
boy
choir
like
this.
The
vineyard
and
castle
were
intriguing
and
beautiful
as
well,
but
the
important
part
there
was,
of
course,
the
wine.
My
tour
guide
was
Anays,
a
catalan
with
a
capital
C,
a
bubbly
presenting
style
and
a
strong
American
accent.
She
was
great.
The
tour
clearly
has
a
few
fixed
talking
points,
but
those
dots
are
connected
by
the
guides
themselves,
and
she
connected
the
dots
beautifully.
She
often
gauged
the
interest
of
the
group
in
different
topics
and
would
go
deeper
or
not
depending
on
how
interested
we
were.
But
she
also
offered
a
lot
of
information
that
was
particularly
interesting
to
her,
like
her
extensive
knowledge
on
wines
stemming
from
her
winemaker
studies,
or
the
backstory
of
the
vineyard
dog,
for
those
interested.
There
is
this
saying
in
the
world
of
video
games
to
indicate
the
level
of
detail
and
humanity
in
a
game’s
systems,
brought
down
to
the
essential
question
of
“Can
you
pet
the
dog?”.
Well,
you
CAN
pet
the
dog
(if
he
wants
to
as
well,
of
course),
and
your
tour
guide
WILL
set
alarms
on
her
phone
to
not
get
lost
too
much
in
her
tangent
on
local
wines
and
the
balance
between
wine
tasting
show-off
and
science
(I
wouldn’t
have
minded
more).
She
also
sent
us
a
great
list
of
recommendations
in
Barcelona
afterwards.
I
repeat
the
recommendation
given
by
the
tour
guides:
go
on
a
weekday.
Montserrat
had
a
good
amount
of
tourists
on
the
Wednesday
I
went,
but
I
can
imagine
it
wouldn’t
be
very
pleasant
in
the
weekend.
The
full-day
tour
would
definitely
be
worth
it:
there
is
enough
to
do
culturally
in
both
Montserrat
and
the
castle,
and
(judging
by
the
way
Anays
greeted
every
other
person
we
encountered),
socially
as
well.
