we made it to Girona safe and sound after a train trip, renting a car and driving to the flat.

so both of us could drive, we had booked an automatic and made arrangements for pick up in Girona at 1:30 PM and dropping off at the airport in Barcelona.

we arrived at the car rental office around 1:45 PM after getting lost trying to find it……it was actually in the train station without any signage. sigh.

the office had a sign up saying they would, ” be back shortly”. 2:30 was shortly……

we let them know we had a reservation and they said yes, and asked if we could drive a manual because the automatic wouldn’t be available for two more hours, “it is in the shop being worked on”. that did not inspire confidence.

so you make a reservation for an automatic car, picking up at 1:30 PM and we are offered a manual at 2:30 PM. we were not pleased and went next door and rented an automatic from another agency for twice as much. sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do what feels like the right thing, even if it’s more expensive.

we negotiated our way to a parking lot in town and unbeknownst to us, it was the free lot by our flat.

this flat was managed by an agency, so we walked to the office to get our keys stopping for lunch on the way.

lunch, keys, small grocery shop and we were set!

tomorrow we’re off to France, which is an hour north of us! très bien.