Travel is full of surprises. Just like life. Sometimes you have to roll with it. Sometimes you just enjoy it. In this case, it was the Spanish-speaking host of our apartment in Cuenca who told me to drive my car to the multi-storey car park nearby and to get back to the apartment, take the lift to the seventh floor and walk back down. It was a shortcut, he said.
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We did all that with Google Translate’s Conversation function. I thought I heard wrongly. I mean, sure, I understand driving down the hill to that dingy car park with the dodgy tunnel entrance. But why not just walk back uphill to the apartment? Why must take a lift to the seventh floor and then walk down? How is that faster?
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But I listened to him anyway. Drove to the dingy car park. Parked it on the first lot I saw on the second floor. Then took a lift to the top floor, floor 7. Then I came out and saw this view.
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What the.
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I messaged the wife back after taking a few photos.
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“You won’t believe the view from the top of this car park, dear! Come, I show you!”
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*iMessaged the photo*
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The Wife replied, “Wow! I want to see!”
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And so I went back to the apartment, and took her back to the car park’s seventh floor via the short way and we enjoyed the view together.
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Then we realized we stayed too long, and it was getting super cold, and the small town may not have any more restaurants open anymore at 11pm on a Sunday. So we rushed back to the town square to look for dinner.
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Phew. Still got one restaurant open. And the food was good too. Heng ah.
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