InterRail Soap Series part 13: Barcelone continued

11) Barcelone part II: JACKPOT!
After we checked-in, we went to our room. It was huge! A two-room apartment with a long nice bath, kitchen, mini bar and a king-size bed! Wow… and this for just only 27 euros a night per person…

On the next day, of course we planned to get into town. We took the tramway to the next subway station and from there we took the subway into the centre.

We like ticket machines somehow. Or they love us… We read all the rules about traveling with public transport in Barcelona as the possibilities of buying “a more day card”, discounts and penalties, before we bought a ticket. Yes, we learned our lesson in Brussels.

Okay, we decided to buy a single ticket to the main station were we can buy a Barcelona Card for 72 hours including free use of public transport. We liked these ticket machines in Barcelona because these machines also accepts, besides coins and cards, 5, 10, 20 and 50 Euro notes.

This is the situation: I bought my ticket and walked away. Dirk-Jan was next. As I walk away, I suddenly heard a yell: “Ow no!” continued with a sound of a falling coins (ching-ching-ching-ching-ching) as if you are in a casino and won money in a fruit machine. I looked around and saw Dirk-Jan on his knees in front of the ticket machine; he bought a 0,90 cent ticket and paid with a 50 Euro note! He got his change back in coins! And also not 24x 2 Euro coins… no… 2 euros,  1 euros, 0,50 cents… everything came out of the machine! Unfortunately, Dirk had the photo camera, so I couldn’t make a picture of this situation… It was so hilarious. The money he got back didn’t fit in his wallet and even his pockets of his shorts were full of coins.