Always Gonna Be You
17. A Hundred Thousand Things To See

Orchids

Don't be asked how bad he is because this is his first long haul flight. It feels more special because she goes with her husband and enjoys business classes. The first time for everything.

Since the check-in process he has been amazed by the special lounges and fast track facilities for business class and first class passengers. Once inside the largest plane he had ever boarded, he climbed into the upper deck, then into the cabin, then into the cabin, he again had to hold his breath to see a very comfortable private atmosphere.

They got a seat in the middle, right next door. While he still wanted to ask Rendra what and how all the buttons around his chair function, the cabin crew deftly distributed the amenity kit in a beautiful container of elegant burgundy color. Not to forget the welcome drink orange juice and snacks, as well as warm towels. As well as giving the menu book as well as asking the menu he wants throughout the trip. Which had embarrassed him because of groggy, so Rendra had to intervene to help. After the cabin crew moved to another passenger, Rendra stroked her head gently, "Take it easy...."

Flight Jakarta - Doha for almost 9 hours pass with full comfort. Enjoy delicious dishes, good snacks, and satisfying in-flight entertainment facilities. Falling asleep in a chair that can be turned into a bed - Without being bothered by Rendra who suddenly woke him up in the middle of the night with a pleading face. Yeah, finally - for almost half the trip time. Likewise with Rendra, several times he glanced next door, Rendra was still asleep.

At exactly 05:10 Doha time, the plane they were boarding landed at Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar. And he immediately amazed to see the luxury and sophistication presented by the airport.

"I got here to have a picnic" he whispered to Rendra's ear as they made their way to Al Mourjan Business Lounge, in transit for the next flight two hours later. While unceasingly admiring the sophisticated and modern things that he first met. Waw!

Rendra just laughed amusedly while shaking her head looking at her unceasing behavior widening her eyes in awe. Up to two hours of waiting in the luxurious and comfortable lounge, it only felt like a blink of an eye. Now, at exactly 07:15 Doha time, the plane they were on had successfully taken off, ready to travel for almost 7 hours to Barcelona, Spain.

Whether because of the time difference or indeed the fatigue has not disappeared, he fell asleep again in half the journey. While Rendra, he saw awake, was engrossed in enjoying the film from a 20-inch wide touch screen monitor, while occasionally interspersed with reading and eating a delicious dessert.

At 13:10 Barcelona time, they arrive at Aeoropuerto de Barcelona El-Prat or Barcelona El-Prat International Airport. After the immigration and baggage collection process was completed, at 14:20 they were picked up by Raul, the guide who will accompany them while in Barcelona.

"Hola, bienvenido senor and senora Darmastawa. Como esta (Hello, welcome ladies and gentlemen of Darmastawa. How are you doing) ?" raul kindly greeted and greeted the two of them.

Rendra was silent and thought, before finally answering with typical Kalimantan dialect, "Bien, gracias. Y usted (Okay, thank you. And you)?"

Raul's face changed, "Bien. Mucho gusto (Well, too. Nice to meet you)," and then move on. "Your Spanish is really good."

Rendra laughed as she shook her head, "No, i mean.just a little bit." Then came back laughing, "I'm nervous enough now."

Raul laughed, then continued the conversation in English, "Well, welcome to Barcelona."

Raul helps them carry the suitcase to put in the car that has been prepared by Marco, the driver. Next they went straight to the hotel.

Throughout the trip, Raul explained a lot about the city of Barcelona, its uniqueness, national and international events that will be held in the future, in some time, until the exciting chat about El Clasico last week where the results of the Barca vs Madrid match ended in a 2-2 draw.

"You watch live?!" Rendra is fascinated to hear Raul's story.

"Yeah, of course, he's Barcelonistas" Marco answered.

"Well, we're rivals" Rendra chuckled.

"Toss!" Marco gave the code to invite five. "2 against 1," while laughing.

"That's me" Raul replied proudly. "It should be Barca who wins. Remember when Messi faced Navas? That's 98% of the goals."

"No.no..no...," Marco replied.

"Navas is obviously at the right time to be able to dismiss the Goat kick," added Rendra.

"Well, that's the game. You should see how they play. There is no time to blink an item for a second" Raul continued enthusiastically.

"Yes, I hope to come back another time to see them play" Rendra said solemnly.

"Darling, when you're only a few days late."

"Yeah, yesterday I was busy with a wedding that was arranged long ago."

"Well, you just got married? Greatable. Congratulations."

Rendra smiled proudly as she clasped her shoulders gently. "Didn't you see the happy glow from both of our faces?"

Rendra's words made him sneer. But Raul and Marco muttered in agreement, "Yes, yes, you look very harmonious and happy."

"Just your destination should be beautiful places" Raul recalled something.

"Except the circuit," he could not bear not to speak.

"Oh yeah.yes." Raul and Marco laughed together. "There will be very noisy mistress. Be careful."

Then they laughed together.

Not until 20 minutes, the car they were riding in had entered the Sofia Barcelona hotel courtyard. And was greeted kindly by the officers. Raul also helps them to check in. Then leave them both to rest, after previously promised to meet again tomorrow morning to do a city tour.

Once they reached their room on the 11th floor, he immediately looked all over, revealing the curtains, so he could see the beautiful view of the city of Barcelona from behind the glass.

"Good huh?"

He can only nod.

"No tape? I'm going to take the night walk. Darrel said there's a nice restaurant nearby. Suitable for Indonesian tongue."

"Aren't you waiting for Raul?"

"I want to walk with you both...."

"That stray how?"

"There's Maps, there's a Spanish dictionary."

"But this is not Jogja, not Prambanan, not Jakarta. We're strangers here."

"No stray papa, the important thing is both of you."

"We need to save energy for tomorrow. You don't want to watch F1. Not the day after tomorrow straight to Manchester."

"Yes, we have to conserve energy."

He nodded happily because Rendra understood.

"You know not a practical way that can make our energy full again. Like a charged phone, the battery is immediately fully charged."

"What?" he nodded in wonder.

"Doing this....."

"And this...."

***

He woke up feeling cold. Apparently the blanket used was exposed until the cold air AC directly penetrated his skin.

Slowly he tried to get up, not wanting to wake up Rendra who was fast asleep, complete with a half-open mouth and a small snore. Plus eyes that open a quarter with only the white part only.

Apparently during the two weeks of living together, he began to know some of Rendra's habits. One of them is, sleeping with a smooth snoring sound when achievement.

In a row he walked towards the bathroom. Remove fatigue by soaking in the bathtub in the crib of aromatherapy fragrance. He even fell back asleep for a while. Once finished and out of the bathroom, he found Rendra still asleep with the same position as before when abandoned. Hmm, the young and dangerous we can tepar also turns out, the mind is amused.

He also filled the time by looking at the sights of Barcelona from behind a glass window, then eating snacks provided by the hotel, replying to chat messages from Papah, Mamah, and Adit in the family group. Not to forget to open a bustling Romance Group with the exciting story of Chris coass in the Thousand Islands, the happiness of Fira who can finally graduate next month, the hassles of Bayu taking care of administration ahead of his study to the UK, also Inne who has now joined the group chat. Practically only he and Dio were silent.

Chris. : 'Fine, ar yu der?'

Inne.: 'Don't bother the honeymoon. Pamali.'s.'

Bayu. : 'The same number Dio compakan no voice.'

Bayu. : 'Show safe bruh?' - while mentag Dio-

But Dio never reply to chat-an children, as well as never appeared in the Romance group, just like him, equally to be a silent reader.

"Wake up?" rendra's hoarse voice almost dropped the phone he was holding.

"If cape sleeps again," he said as he approached Rendra and then poured a glass of water.

"Suddenly have an idea" said Rendra after spending a glass of water giving from him.

"What?!"

"Before the culinary, how do we get to Camp Nou? I checked the maps, it's only a 5-minute walk from here."

"If you don't mind, we'll take a tour around the stadium. Info on the site anyway, more or less takes 2 hours."

"There's still time for us to make our way to La Rambla."

"The Camp Nou section with La Rambla is not included in our city tour destination tomorrow."

He nodded in agreement. Although not a football fan, but already here, why not? Visiting a world-class club cage will obviously add to his insight. And later maybe he can buy merchandise or a typical Barca souvernir for Papah and Adit that ball mania.

The distance from the hotel where they stay to the club pride stadium Barcelona is only about less than 1 km. They walked for almost 15 minutes. Because they stop a lot to take pictures or see interesting things found in the middle of the road.

Rendra bought a self-guided tour ticket for the two of them for 23 Euros. It means their Camp Nou Tour without being accompanied by a special guide. You can also rent an audio tour guide for 5 Euros, but Rendra said, "No need yes, will not be rude," while pointing to some very clear directions.

Once inside the magnificent stadium, the fur on its back immediately goosebumps watching behind the scenes of a football club as big as Barcelona. It feels like sitting in a VIP seat, seeing a press conference place for players, also a press box or where the commentators do their work covering the match, and most like Rendra, visible from the expression of admiration that emanated, was to look at the dressing room of the opposing player.

Once the tour is over, he was impatient to send their two wefie to Adit with a magnificent green grass field background with the inscription Camp Nou Stadium. Adit tumben-tumbenan fast response replied,

Adit. : 'COOL.' -emoticon mupeng + cry-out

Adit. : 'Titip jersey no.10 home.'

Adit. : 'Size M.'

Adit.: 'It's a must.'

Which immediately makes it dizzy to see the price listed, more than 100 Euros or almost 2 million rupiah. Very expensive?! But without saying Rendra had taken the shirt and paid for it at the cashier. Do not forget to buy some merchandise and souvenirs for souvenirs.

After FCBottiga Megastore, Rendra invited him to visit the FC Barcelona Museum. To see the journey of Barcelona since its establishment to the present. Hundreds of trophies neatly arranged according to the year of acquisition, memorabilia of the player's property, not to miss the display of thousands of photos of Barcelona matches.

Going around for almost two hours makes their stomachs hungry. Dinner plans at the restaurant recommendation Darrel was canceled because of the stomach rumbling. Rendra had seen a cell phone for a while before finally choosing to enter a Japanese restaurant that provides the main menu of sushi.

"Indonesians, have not eaten if they do not eat rice" Rendra said.

From the sushi restaurant, Rendra had to go back to check the phone with a frown - making him laugh amusedly because it looks funny. Then took the time to ask people who happened to pass by, who apparently could not speak English. While Rendra's Spanish treasury is just a standard conversation by book - make it a laugh-back. Finally, it must be equipped with sign language. But it even made them lost.

"Say knows," he pretended to sneer while helplessly holding back laughter.

"Seneng is stray," Rendra laughed. Until finally Rendra's forehead is no longer wrinkled after a long time looking at the phone - it seems to have found a way out - and took him on the metro or electric train to Plaza de Catalunya, the square of the city of Barcelona.

"You see the cell phone, you can read it?" walk down the Plaza de Catalunya to the monument of two fountains by Antoni Gaudi, a Catalan architect from Reus, Spain, who became the main character of Catalan modernism.

Rendra chuckled, "So give up, finally go to Raul."

"What's he saying?"

"He was angry, 'why not say from earlier, if you want he can make a walk'."

"What do you need to answer?"

"I said, 'sori, Raul, I want to walk with my wife', '" while grabbing her shoulders gently. "Tomorrow we'll be going all day around town with him."

He smiled as his eyes glared at the three handsome little boys running around the fountain monument. While their father and mother sat watching from the long chair.

Just a few steps from Plaza de Catalunya, they arrive at La Rambla area, a wide preservation filled with lush trees on the left right, and stretches for approximately 1.2 km.

Along La Rambla there are rows of shops, boutiques, restaurants, hotels, markets, souvenir shops, street artists, and street vendors. Not to forget the row of famous fashion boutiques from Spain such as Zara, Mango, and Bershka. Rendra had pointed to a beautiful dress most up to date plastered on the Zara window, but he shook his head, "Bajuku already a lot. No need to."

Who immediately rewarded him with a brief kiss on the top of the head, "Jalan sama you ngirit bener," while chuckling.

Tonight the atmosphere of La Rambla is very crowded and crowded with people passing by. Locals and tourists mixed in. Several policemen were seen patrolling along the preservation. From where they walked began to see the end of La Rambla. But Rendra took him to the left.

“Kata Raul earlier, from La Rambla, do not turn right, danger, prone to crime."

"Turn to the left, many historical sites, as well as the way back to the hotel."

He also nodded in understanding. Along the way home, they pass the Barcelona FC official store, Picasso Museum, and art noveau-style music venue.

They arrived at the hotel at exactly 21:30. Hungry again, Rendra called room service. Without waiting long, the food they ordered was slippery. But it still feels less.

"Are you still hungry?" Rendra. Make him unpack the cardboard supplies that were deliberately prepared by Mamah since Jogja. Which turned out to contain Padang cuisine which is now like a paradise of the world. Complete contains rendang, abon, chicken milk, dried potatoes, and sambal.

"Well, Mom, you're really ready for two weeks now" Rendra smiled happily, then turned to the suitcase, and picked up the rice.

"Geez," he frowned and laughed. "You brought rice??" he just found out because their suitcases are each.

"No rice does not eat" Rendra chuckled. Then cook it in a rice cooker for a mini traveler.

"You brought a rice cooker too?!?"

"It looks ordinary dong, don't have to be amazed that way," seloroh Rendra.

While waiting for the rice to cook, they sat huddled together on the sofa while watching television. Once the rice is cooked and tanak, they, especially Rendra, immediately eat the best food that seems to have not been met for years, but only two days away from Indonesia.

After eating they had talked about many things, especially the plan for the next ten days, and which places to visit.

At 23:00 her eyes began to get sleepy, dragging a step she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth. So too with Rendra. As he began to prepare for sleep, Rendra smiled at him, "I think I want to eat something else."

"Seriously?"

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Remarks :

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