First Day In Barcelona: Getting Lost and Meeting Up

Mark Guim — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:23:37 +0000

I arrived in Spain this morning and headed to a beautiful resort, Le Meridien RA in Calafell. I’m staying at a duplex with a balcony having an incredible view of the beach. Jeremiah from Nokia Users and I decided to preview Barcelona before meeting up with the rest of the bloggers at night. Knowledge deficit in the Spanish language led to getting lost in the train. We eventually found our way back to meet with the rest of the group, though. Take a look at my picture story with the Nokia N82.

The resort the we are staying at is incredible. You can lie on the bed and see the beach through the high-ceiling window.

The wonderful morning went downhill when Jeremiah from Nokia Users and I decided to check out Barcelona, which was an hour away via train because all of the closer hotels were fully booked for the Mobile World Congress.

When we got to Catalunya, Barcelona, most of the stores were closed because of Sunday (so weird). I was looking to buy a pre-paid sim-card, but no luck. The street performers entertained us while we looked for free wifi hotspots on our Nokia N82, Nokia N810, and Nokia N95 to contact others to meet up.

When we couldn’t connect our phones to the internet, we used our little Spanish speaking skills for directions. We ended up taking the train the opposite way and wasted about half hour. Thanks to Jeremiah’s Nokia N95 showing that we were going the wrong way, we didn’t end up somewhere hours away from the hotel.

When we got back to the hotel, all the bloggers were there already. These included James from Nokia Creative, Norm from Symbian World, Vaibhav from The Symbian blog, Matthew from Darlamack, Amir from Phone Rush, Stefanos from Pestaola, and Neil from iGadget Life. We discussed what we anticipated at the Mobile World Congress tomorrow. Donna and Robbie from Nseries WOM World were there to capture it on video. You can view this video on the Mobile World Congress virtual event.

We concluded that we will see the Nokia N96 and Nokia N78 as well as an S60 touch device. However, I think Nokia will surprise us tomorrow. Only a few more hours to find out!

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First Day In Barcelona: Getting Lost and Meeting Up

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