There are some beautiful hikes nearby the residency that eventually lead to Montserrat . I haven´t quite made it to the base of the mountain yet. The weather here in the more mountainous region of Catalonia has been cool, around 14 degrees and mostly sunny. Great for hiking. Yesterday I went into Barcelona to meet up with my friend Rebecca Crowell and her husband Don Ticknor from the U.S. We met up at the Fundacion Antoni Tapies where we saw a small number of Tapies pieces and a terrific film about him and his work.. On the lower level of the museum was a retrospective of the work of Anna Maria Maiolino , an Italian-born artist who lives in Brazil. The Tapies website says that Maiolino´s ¨complex works have developed through a variety of media: poetry, woodcuts, photography, film, performance, sculpture, installation and, above all, drawing. The wide spectrum of subjects, interests and attitudes that underlies her work does not follow a linear devel...