January 25, 2019 - 8 Facts About the Historic New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Administrative Building and Tanya visits Monserrat and Park Guell in Barcelona

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​8 Facts About the Historic New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Administrative Building

Is it really finally Friday?
This week was rather tiring, even though it was only a four-day work/school week. 

This will be a short one since I have a boatload of errands to run before Kelsey gets home from school.  Gianna has off today after three days of finals.  Later this afternoon she'll be headed to a basketball game, to which "Mom" will be driving her.

With another Friday comes another feature article in ThisIsTheBronx.info.  This week, I wholeheartedly enjoyed researching and writing about, yet another NYC Landmark that is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in the Bronx, New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Administrative Building has quite an interesting history!

New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Administrative Building (TheBronxNYC / Wikimedia Commons)

8 Facts About the Historic New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Administrative Building​ 

The New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad Administration Building is a historic office building and railroad station in the Van Nest section of The Bronx.

The original design of this building was conceived by architect Alfred T. Fellheimer of the firm Fellheimer & Long with the purpose of functioning as the administrative headquarters of the NYW&B railroad, for which he fashioned in the style of an Italian villa. 

Working in association with fellow architect, Allen M. Stein, construction was completed in 1912 and six decades later, the building was proudly designated as a New York City Landmark (1976) and subsequently, listed on the National Register of Historic Places four years later in 1980. read more

Tomorrow, for Shopping Saturday here on Travelin' Cousins, I will tell you all about my thoroughly enjoyable night last night co-hosting a "Stella & Dot" Glam Travel Event, so stay tuned!!!
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-Travelin' Elisa
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Tanya visits Monserrat and Park Guell in Barcelona

One last greetings from my amazing Cruisin’ Europe trip plus our lovely stay in none other than one of my fav cities of Barcelona!

We’ll saying ADIOS to the delightful city this afternoon and flying back over to the USA and to my wonder twins (okay so they aren’t twins - I just felt like saying that) and heading back to the fam bam. 

My fam bam is really the only thing that makes traveling difficult. 

And it’s not even that they make the actual traveling part difficult. It’s that they don’t even like traveling and as you know I’m beyond addicted. 

It’s the being away from loved ones that is the toughest part about travel.  Because it is afterall love/loved-ones/family that make the world go around.

This in fact is one of the things that I actually love most about travel, it's the visiting other cultures and peeking into the lives of those who have a simpler, slower pace, one that is more family orientated (than that of those in our culture who live life in the good ol' Rat Race) and what I by far consider a higher quality of life.

This is something that truly warms my heart. 

Well before we head to the airport to catch that big bird in the sky, we have a bit of running around to do. I'll catch you up on all of this tomorrow. 

For now please enjoy the events of our last full day in and around Barcelona.

Our first order of business was going to Montserrat.

It was a bit windy yesterday and the "feels like" temps at Montserrat were 21F. A bit brrrr. But since when does weather or temps ever put a dampener on my day.

​Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain range near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain

It is well known as the site of the Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat.
"Montserrat" literally means "saw mountain" in Catalan. It describes its peculiar aspect with multitude of rock formations which are visible from a great distance. Montserrat was designated as a National Park in 1987.

It was a lovely visit with gorgeous views out to the Mediterranean on one side the snowy Great Pyrenees mountains on the other.

The Basilica was also incredibly historic and absolutely beautiful.

We even had the opportunity and pleasure of listening to the world renowned boy's choir at Montserrat - L'Escolania.
It was pure loveliness.

DID YOU KNOW: The first account of there being a Boy's Choir at Montserrat dates right back to 1223. 

After heading back down to Barcelona, we had plans of going to Park Guell -

Park Güell is one of the most impressive public parks in the world! Located in Barcelona and was designed by famous and talented architect Antonio Gaudi.

After a lovely visit and a wonderful photoshoot we had headed back to Barri Gothic and to continue into the evening...

The rest of the night was filled with more shopping on our last night in Barcelona and going out for a delicious Paella dinner.

Now we're off to hit the streets and then off to the airport we go!

Catch you back here from SoCal tomorrow,
-Travelin' Tanya