It takes 1h20' to get to Vic , and the return ticket costs 10,40 euros from Plaza Catalunya. The second part of the train route is really nice, goes between green hills , next to small rivers and wild flower fields, although the first half in the Valles area was not to friendly, it is quite industrial and overpacked with newly build blocks. Every tuesday and sturdy there is a market on Vic's Plaza Mayor. The square is really pretty, with a medieval atmosphere , especially that the square itself is not covered with tiles or stones or concrete, instead it is covered with gravel.The market is just like the typical general weekly markets around Barcelona: lot of chinese stuff, some second hand clothes for 1 euro each, cheap cosmetics, big variety of potted plants, good looking and delicious vegetables. Luckily the tourist information office was open so i could get a map of the city, and also many useful information and guides about walking paths around the city, one of those goes to the Monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres , and it looks really pretty on the photos, so i would really like to walk there soon, it is just a 19km walk back and forth.There is a nice little "touristic route" in Vic, which drives you around the old town , carefully , so you stay only on the very pretty old streets and got to see all the classical sights the town can offer. The river with the old bridge is pretty although the other side of the river and all the other bridges are newly build uninteresting grey things. There is a real roman church on the way as well which i found quite impressive, there was a local flower-painter's exhibition in the church, so from the inside it didn't look like a roman church at all. The whole walk can be done in an hour, and it drives you back to the Plaza Mayor, from there the train station is just 5 minutes walk.
It is a 20 minutes journey with the train from Plaza Catalunya to Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, and costs 2,20 euros each way. When you come out of the train turn right and then follow the main road which also has a bike lane on it. Following the bike lane till the river you'll get to a bridge where you need to cross the river , and on the other side follow the bike lane which goes more or less by the river. It is a very strange place , one side is with parking trucks and industrial buildings , the other is green hilly natural golf field type of landscape with a small river, destroyed by huge electrical poles. It is a straight road for quite a long while , on one point you can already enter the fenced off park or you can continue on the bike lane on the sidewalk. I f you go on the sidewalk soon you'll see a sign for the Mango Outlet, so if you want to do little shopping in the industrial zone before the picnic in the park , just follow those signs. Otherwise just go a head till you see the main entrance of the park , and check out the circle shaped fenced off, depressing lake and enjoy yourself in this place which looks like an illustration from the seventies, pretty surreal. There are many other people doing the same , enjoying the green grass, pine trees, mini railway, small river, geometrical landscape having some sandwiches. I wouldn't say it is a very beautiful place but this mixed atmosphere of the industrial zone, the super tidy park and the downtown-like shopping possibility is pretty inspiring.
Circle shaped lake , near Santa Perpetua de Mogoda
