enduring couples (then 29)
Seeing a gas station, stopped, as was already circulating in escrow. I was shocked to see that it has no currency pesetas, or small bills. All he had were about three coats and three greenbacks. Were a thousand pesetas, the most valuable cast named for the color of your tinted windows. Could be equated to about ten thousand crowns.
The waiter service, was unable to attend, as to what might reach filling the tank, about six hundred shields, could not give change back in 1400.
I decided to just put it for me my nineties.
being Friday afternoon, I thought the next morning would come to the bank with a check so I paid in different currency Portuguese.
My unease grew as I approached the hotel. My greenbacks, were unsuitable for the usual costs in stores. This was something I noted the entry to Portugal. A English tourists were admitted of small denominations, even leaving traders to gain from the change, but the greenback did not want exposed, obeying the same attitude that the boy from the gas station. So
circulated with the family, foreign land without a currency that could handle contingencies.
wanted
Lisbon starting at noon on Saturday, just before the military magazine would at the English Embassy. I was excited to have a receipt that credited my trip abroad. To forty years old, did not have the definitive license English army. But we are allowed annually personare us any day at our agency in a English administrative entity. And the embassy was ideal.
English Embassy in Lisbon .
"While desayunáis, Tere, I'll be walking to the embassy which is nearby. I will pay the hotel bill.
took it for granted that the hotel would admit a bank check. Well, no. Admitted there heels. It is more as a favor to the customer, admitting foreign bills, but even offering to change. This was a matter for the banks. And the banks to drop this holiday week with a long bridge in Portugal, would not open until Tuesday.
was useless to explain that if I paid them with greenbacks could not refuel, thus immobilized me until Tuesday.
Not only that, three days lost, altered double my journey. For the delay time and stay three days without money useful in the pocket. Impossible to meet any emergency.
Nothing. Customer service at that hotel was conspicuous by its absence. I got the feeling, that they feared he left without paying, so they let me out, seeing Teresa and my children stayed at the hotel. Concerned
thought that on this occasion, the Consulate or Embassy, \u200b\u200bhelp a English citizen. But what role incumbent?.
looked very lonely Embassy. I saw only two officers, one of them reading the paper and the other, looking like someone who thinks.
" Go, a fool is to annoy. "
- What is offered?
"Good morning, look I have a problem with the hotel, I do not support vouchers for payment of the invoice.
-Man, have no obligation to accept vouchers.
"Okay, but how I will pay if the banks are closed until Tuesday?.
-pay them on Tuesday .-
"To this solution, I needed to get to the Embassy.
The newspaper's interest and changed their stance. I explained the drama, did not have many days to stay in Lisbon and also my greenbacks were not accepted by the gas station and less by retailers for payments of small amounts.
Broken ice, a nice attitude, I changed to crowns a greenback. Then apologized for the impression given input. They were upset with the Ambassador, that obliged them this holiday season, to go to the Embassy with the excuse, representing Spain and Spain, it was not festive.
Then I asked what the military magazine and one of them was surprised. It was the first time someone like me asking such a requirement. The other did know the process and just showing my ID, recorded the data to a list, pulled out a form, and sealed it all figured out.
happy as a fan I just received an autograph from his idol, the portfolio kept the piece of paper that would look to friends when I tell my war stories.
Back at the hotel, I asked the account and of the green and part of boards available, I left the exact amount, without tip. It is not deserved.
And I remember them for their lack of finesse.
What was not imagined that I would have to agree them so soon.
enduring couples (below 29 a)
The unrest prompted by lack of useful currency to deal with contingencies, declined my application for a longer stay on Portuguese soil . After refueling at the pump Lisboeta, we went directly to Coimbra, without straying to Fatima.
I would have liked to see the development there thanks to the pilgrimage during the years he had declared the apparitions of the Virgin Mary there. I missed the chance, as we missed the Palmar de Troya.
In Coimbra then made a brief stop for lunch. This, indeed enough money.
Coimbra, Plaza do Comercio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-F-cwo_y4
Balada de Coimbra
http:/ / www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqB8R...eature=related
-Amalia Rodrigues Coimbra
So little we saw of the city, chose to spend the night in Porto, for which the earliest to arrive, more time would have to visit its monuments. That
City, brought back memories of my ancestors lived, also the story of my childhood and most recently as the colleague Serrano, married thanks to the meddling of Teresa and me, to put you in touch with Beatriz correspondence during the military service in Alcalá.
I remember my paternal grandmother told of her betrothal to an "American." It was my paternal grandfather, returned from Caracas with their parents. One of many families that by this time had crossed the Atlantic in search of fortune.
not fared well or badly. His return to the Fatherland, was taken by the Catalans, as if they were very good and came to enjoy the fortune. Therefore, all the returnees were nicknamed "The Americans."
In a few years the components of this family of "Americans" were incorporated into the work of their real jobs, which was evidenced that, or fortune faded, or just had to be substantial.
said my grandmother, who at that time, to save on the trip, many emigrants were shipped in bulk carriers. They did, passing the resulting hardships of the journey aboard a boat without a cabin. On deck, were enduring the weather for a month. Finally
landed in Porto, or as we say here, in Porto. It was the most important shopping destination.
In my childhood, I remember four years, I witnessed a conversation between my grandmother and her neighbor always accompanied by the maid.
-Ia, ia, how badly Mr. parliament. (Grandma, that evil is what the Lord)-I said to be alone.
For me, mingled Castilian and Catalan, but even some rare words were uttered.
"No Carlos, is that it is in Porto, a Portuguese. They all speak well . Apparently
accompanied the family since his arrival there to the birthplace of my grandfather to his return. A kind of symbiosis. The from there come here when the people here, go there. And I remembered
Serrano, which lost track since his transfer once married, to Oporto.
had a tempting offer, as a technician in a textile factory. He said that if you stay out not very satisfactory, return to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he also had offers. I did not hear him, I have to believe that he was satisfied. And maybe still living in Oporto. Total
we reached a city, that knew not evoked memories.
Oporto
Before registering at the hotel, asked if he would admit bank checks. A hot and cold sand. They're the admitted but had to present a passport and identity card. As normal and fixed the problem but for ... .. I had no passport. He stayed at the hotel in Lisbon. Aggggg ....!
The unrest prompted by lack of useful currency to deal with contingencies, declined my application for a longer stay on Portuguese soil . After refueling at the pump Lisboeta, we went directly to Coimbra, without straying to Fatima.
I would have liked to see the development there thanks to the pilgrimage during the years he had declared the apparitions of the Virgin Mary there. I missed the chance, as we missed the Palmar de Troya.
In Coimbra then made a brief stop for lunch. This, indeed enough money.
Coimbra, Plaza do Comercio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-F-cwo_y4
Balada de Coimbra
http:/ / www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqB8R...eature=related
-Amalia Rodrigues Coimbra
So little we saw of the city, chose to spend the night in Porto, for which the earliest to arrive, more time would have to visit its monuments. That
City, brought back memories of my ancestors lived, also the story of my childhood and most recently as the colleague Serrano, married thanks to the meddling of Teresa and me, to put you in touch with Beatriz correspondence during the military service in Alcalá.
I remember my paternal grandmother told of her betrothal to an "American." It was my paternal grandfather, returned from Caracas with their parents. One of many families that by this time had crossed the Atlantic in search of fortune.
not fared well or badly. His return to the Fatherland, was taken by the Catalans, as if they were very good and came to enjoy the fortune. Therefore, all the returnees were nicknamed "The Americans."
In a few years the components of this family of "Americans" were incorporated into the work of their real jobs, which was evidenced that, or fortune faded, or just had to be substantial.
said my grandmother, who at that time, to save on the trip, many emigrants were shipped in bulk carriers. They did, passing the resulting hardships of the journey aboard a boat without a cabin. On deck, were enduring the weather for a month. Finally
landed in Porto, or as we say here, in Porto. It was the most important shopping destination.
In my childhood, I remember four years, I witnessed a conversation between my grandmother and her neighbor always accompanied by the maid.
-Ia, ia, how badly Mr. parliament. (Grandma, that evil is what the Lord)-I said to be alone.
For me, mingled Castilian and Catalan, but even some rare words were uttered.
"No Carlos, is that it is in Porto, a Portuguese. They all speak well . Apparently
accompanied the family since his arrival there to the birthplace of my grandfather to his return. A kind of symbiosis. The from there come here when the people here, go there. And I remembered
Serrano, which lost track since his transfer once married, to Oporto.
had a tempting offer, as a technician in a textile factory. He said that if you stay out not very satisfactory, return to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he also had offers. I did not hear him, I have to believe that he was satisfied. And maybe still living in Oporto. Total
we reached a city, that knew not evoked memories.
Oporto
Before registering at the hotel, asked if he would admit bank checks. A hot and cold sand. They're the admitted but had to present a passport and identity card. As normal and fixed the problem but for ... .. I had no passport. He stayed at the hotel in Lisbon. Aggggg ....!
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