Espangne 2023
“You’re late,” the displaced Ukrainian ticket agent at Europa car said. “We put your car back, and you can’t have it.” “But our flight was delayed an hour!” I replied. “When you use a third party carrier like Booking dot com, I’m not obliged to keep your reservation. I f you had booked through our website, I would have kept the car for you for 24 hours. You need to read the fine print.” I was not the only person who discovered that they had bought two car rentals, but only had one car at the end of it. Booking a car from Canada was at least half the price, and now, for a third more, I have a car for the week. I’m glad to have it, but not happy with paying about a hundred dollars a day. I joked that I could possibly just sleep in the car as it was cheaper than getting a hotel room. But I just sucked it up to an unfortunate travel experience. They happen. I’m moving on. “Education costs money,” my mother has always said. I got m...