Happy Canada Day Everyone!
Sunrise over Barcelona
Well today we were to accomplish 2 things – first, I was taking a 2nd Espadrille class (more advanced than the first one 4 weeks ago) and second we were to switch rental cars as our first contract was up as they only rent for 4 weeks at a time. So we were going to say goodbye to our teal car! It had to go back too as there was an engine service warning that showed up yesterday. Again, after an EXCELLENT breakfast at the AC Marriott Forum Hotel, Andrew and I adventured out and took the subway to the Handmade in Barcelona shop so I could take my class. I was the only one in the class so the shoe decoration went quite quickly! Andrew went out on his own (this was a momentous occasion – he gets lost getting off the elevator going to hotel rooms) to get some coffee and check out the neighbourhood. Good thing – he did not get lost! He would not show me how many pictures he took though to ensure he got back to the store that I was at… every time we park somewhere in a city to go somewhere he takes a picture of where we parked (the building or street corner) so IN CASE we get lost he can ask someone how to get back to that location. Has not needed to do it so far as I have a very good sense of direction. It used to be to Nordstrom’s but I have fixed that! Anyway, back on topic – here are the shoes that I made this time!
You might say some of those good looking sandal/shoes on the shelf on the upper right have come home with me too….much to Andrew’s dismay!
So then we were off to Budget to return our car to the in city rental location that we had picked it up from. Hmmm. No location to return that car to on the street – so I ran in (and backed up traffic) to find out where to go. They said go down the lane after making a right and park in the garage. So we went around the block twice looking for the garage and on our 3rd try the rental location had closed for lunch! You got to watch these Spanish who take those afternoon siestas! So as we did not want to pay for extra hours of rental AND they had charged us about 500 Euro incorrectly on our contract we really needed to talk to someone. So out to the airport we went! Sidebar: We are going to stay at a resort south of the airport on Monday and I had been tossing around the idea of our next car rental, which was scheduled to be picked up from this Budget facility in town and returned to the airport and we were going to have to pay a drop fee for, to instead just change the car rental to the airport and we take the metro out there after dropping the car originally at the Budget location in the city. So I had made a reservation at Hertz on June 30th in case we decided to take the airport route, which I could cancel anytime. Okay, back to the story now. Arrived at airport, returned call, had a nice chat with the manager and showed her our Budget contract vs. the reservation and she fixed it all! I then asked her to cancel the Budget reservation for the city rental location and told her we decided we did not need a car and liked transit better as it is so good in Barcelona (which is true). We then took the elevator UP to Hertz (thank goodness they were not on the same floor and she would see us walk there) and rented the car and drove back to our hotel!
We then celebrated Canada Day having dinner at the 17th flood Suite Bar (and pool area) of the hotel. I wore my red Canada ball cap all day long too!
