Historically I have had bad track record about maintaining a travelogue. Either the laptop runs out of juice, or we stay out too late, or it simply passes out of conscience. The reasons are as endless as my excuses. Sometimes I pen down my thoughts in drafts, to be edited and polished later. But later never comes.This time however I hav decided to just publish the blog every night without fail. So pardon the grammatical and spelling mistakes.
A day of travel...literally...
Started the trip with a late night Kuwait Airways flight from JFK to Heathrow. The three of us made an interesting trio. Me, the girl next to me and the guy on the other side of the aisle. Me, early 30s traveling outside of US for true first time that too for just 2weeks. The girl early 20s traveling to Europe for a college assignment for a month. And the guy in late 20s out on an 8 months long trip around the world. Had and interesting conversation.
Immigration was routine and when waiting for Kishore was informed by Hari that his flight was arriving at another Terminal. Had to scramble across, the only annoying part being I had to unload the cart before boarding the train and put it back on another cart at the other terminal. Kishore's flight was on time and we had a hour long drive to Stansted airport where we had to board our flight to Spain. Yellow flower filled fields banking the Motorway M25 constantly reminded me of DDLJ. The idea behind going to Stansted was to take a low fare airline to Spain. But after factoring in the checkin baggage fees and cab fare the price evened out. We would have been better off taking a flight from Heathrow. We however would have missed the Entourage moment of the day. An extra 10$ for priority checkin brought us VIP treatment while boarding, where the entire flight crew was standing by the plane's stairs to greet us.
Reached Barcelona and again thankfully immigration was quick. We however were in for a shock. We had booked our apt bang in the middle of Las Ramblas and had also paid a bit of premium for the location. After reaching there and seeing the party scene were feeling very good at that decision. But the booking agent told us that the apt we had booked was unavailable and he had arranged for an alternate. He said, the cables in out apt had caught fire and the repairs won't be done till Sunday. How convenient, we were furious. It was apparent that he had given the apt to a higher bidder. That left a sour taste in what had otherwise been a pretty nice day. Unhappily we took possession of the other apt and later went out for a stroll on Las Ramblas. Had dinner and am finally glad to get a chance to unwind. Eager to get some sleep. A long day awaits tomorrow
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