how does one say "I am mildly annoyed" in Spanish?
Flight to Barcelona was relatively uneventful. I was stuck in the middle seat of the middle section wedged between two men, one of whom was at least 6'6" ( I actually felt kinda bad for him and since he wasn't complaining I figured I really couldn't) and the other a smallish 6'2". But the flight was on time, service decent ( even though we were in coach) and I got my luggage at the other end, so all's well.
Except I arrived at the hotel at 10am and learned I couldn't check in 'til 3pm. Annoyance set in. Cause I have at this point been up a total of 20 hours and prior to that had only 5 hours of sleep.
Make the most of it, I figured. So I got directions to the metro and bought a ticket for what I thought was 4 days ("dies"?) only it only worked once. So I bought another after trying in vain to get help from a Spanish-only speaker through a drive-thru type microphone ( despite the fact the button said in English " push if you need help") and figured out which line to take and finally arrived at the conference site with the intent of picking up my conference pass.
Only I get to the checkin and learn " someone" already picked it up buy they can't tell me who so I have no badge.
And it is Sunday so everything is closed.
And it is still only 11am so I can't check into my hotel.
So here I am. Sitting on some dirty concrete steps blogging via phone. Can't wait to see the international data roaming charges for this!
Viva Espagne.
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