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On way back from 3GSM, just in the BA business lounge checking my credit card statements for entries that shouldn't be there. All looks ok so far, one bar name took a double take because it isn't what was on the slip they gave me. It was also an insanely priced round of drinks. Barcelona is a strange city.
Mixed feelings at the end of it. Some good business done. Too many meetings, too many parties, too much drinking. By Wednesday night I'd had enough and was ready for home. Had trouble explaning to a taxi driver that I really really did want to go back to my hotel and not to a strip club. Between the working girls on La Rambla and the taxi drivers, it can be a difficult city to navigate.
Looks like I was only resoundingly ripped off twice. Once by a taxi driver, who charged us roughly 3 times what was the going rate and once by being stung by my boss asking me to pay for a round of drinkings for a potential client in a _bar_ we had found ourselves in because he could sign my expenses but I couldn't sign his.
C'est la vie. All over for another year, and thank goodness.
Mixed feelings at the end of it. Some good business done. Too many meetings, too many parties, too much drinking. By Wednesday night I'd had enough and was ready for home. Had trouble explaning to a taxi driver that I really really did want to go back to my hotel and not to a strip club. Between the working girls on La Rambla and the taxi drivers, it can be a difficult city to navigate.
Looks like I was only resoundingly ripped off twice. Once by a taxi driver, who charged us roughly 3 times what was the going rate and once by being stung by my boss asking me to pay for a round of drinkings for a potential client in a _bar_ we had found ourselves in because he could sign my expenses but I couldn't sign his.
C'est la vie. All over for another year, and thank goodness.
