Ok. There is a story to this. When we arrived in Barcelona, I called the rental agency as instructed. I spoke with a pleasant woman named Erika. It was about 11:30 when I called and she told me that check in was not until 2pm. However, our maid was at the condo and we could go there and leave our bags. She then confirmed that there were two of us.... and an infant. I informed her there was no infant. To that she was very much surprised. Then she gave me the address for the condo. It was not the same address I had on the confirmation. That's when Erika realized she had two Basile's checking in that day.
Having avoided that calamity. We did face another. The Maid would not be at our condo until 1pm or later. Erika suggested going to the train station, the Estacio de Franco, and depositing our bags there and wait until the "concierge" would arrive at 2:15 to complete the contract.
So that is what we did. We took a taxi to the train station. Went through security there and into the locker room. Unfortunately, all the large lockers were occupied. So, we hired another taxi and had him drive us the half kilometer distance (which was about a 4k ride because of one way streets, etc.) and drop us off in front of Carrer de Parades 1. It was now about 12:40. Nothing for us to do, but wait on the street with our luggage...
