Saturday, February 17, 2007

Welcome to Barcelona

10 feb 2007

What a way to get a welcome in a new city !

I was witness to a theft attempt at the airport where an attempt was made to check for a wallet in a laptop case, which was seen by some of us who were all waiting to catch the free 3GSM bus to the “Fira de Barcelona”, the venue of the event. This event served notice to all of us to be extra careful. Apparently, pickpocket is very common in Barcelona

We were saved of the long queues by the registration that we did on saturday itself. The queues would end up like the tail of “Hanuman” on Monday, since some 70000 visitors are expected for this event – 3GSM. I realized that the staff was just not upto the speed and were just setting up the machinery and the process.

My apartment booking was done at 46, La Vietana which is one of the Beds and Breakfast hostels and was located right in the downtown, near the Placa Catalunya, one of the center spots. It consisted of big, beautiful room with a twin bed, sofa, wardrobes but the (four toilets) and the kitchen are shared between the seven rooms in the floor. I noticed that the doors and windows are very long ( may be 19-12 feet from down )This probably is the typical definition of a hostel in this part of the world. Apparently, we can have a sumptuous breakfast and even cook food if we wish to since everything including oil, salt, vessels exist in the kitchen. What I was surely missing was the WLAN that existed in the Paris hotel L

After settling in the new place, I went out to eat something and ended up picking a vegetable Lasagne at the Pizza hut just down the corner..

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