Montserrat, Spain - Extraordinary day trip from Barcelona - a full guide - will help anyone planning to visit this place! It's a breathtaking location about 50km from the lively city of Barcelona, in the Catalan countryside. A Benedictine monk retreat and art museum, set against a backdrop of multi-peaked mountains. This post blends both useful info for going there and also my personal memoirs of visiting Montserrat, to fire your … [Read more...]
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Mark James Murphy is a writer, artist and adventurer. He was born in Sunderland, North-East England in the early 1980s.
He has solo travelled extensively throughout the world and in 2017 decided to leave behind his job and apartment in the UK to teach English in Vietnam, South East Asia, for almost five years, describing it as the best moments of his life so far.
There he also continued developing his practice as an artist and printmaker, documenting his travels through the medium of linocut.
In 2019 he fulfilled a childhood dream when he backpacked for two months throughout the whole of India, ending up in a remote village in the Himalayan foothills.
He has played football with local kids in the Sahara desert, lived with Hmong people high in the mountains of North Vietnam and worked as a farmhand in Southern Spain.