Now that it seems that after the storm in Catalonia calm returns to the Vuelta allow me to put the dots on the i’s in two aspects that drive crazy any special envoy who recore half Europe to the sound of bicycles. There is nothing worse than deprogramming hotel room cards or the real doctoral exam of finding hot water in the shower. Why will there not be a unification of criteria?
Many, many years ago, when Miguel Indurain If you were a candidate for the Tour de France or a cyclist who wanted to stand out in the Vuelta, you would arrive at a hotel in any provincial capital and they would give you a key that weighed your own, almost always accompanied by a kind of wig where the graceful number was inscribed. . The key was placed in the lock, the one of a lifetime, turned and hallelujah, you were already inside the shelter where you could rest, even though there was no Wi-Fi, just a television that, now, remains off while the computer sparks until it shuts down. they close their eyes.
deprogrammed
The key never failed and it was impossible to forget it because it occupied its own. Now the hotels have cards, as if to credit they open the doors of the rooms by magic. I wish that was the case, since they almost always miss like fairground shotguns. That’s when you have to take the elevator, go down to reception and ask for a replacement card. And it even seems that many times they blame you for having placed it next to the mobile, cursed contraption that cancels the keys to the rooms and that makes you waste precious time between getting angry because you don’t open the room, taking a deep breath and approaching the reception with a sad and tired face, they take the shift card, place it in a sort of a top hat and they tell you not to worry, to go back to the elevator, go up to your floor and with a little patience in a few minutes you will be lying in bed thinking about the next day’s stage and the possible winner.
But it is that when you wake up half asleep the next morning the class begins in the university career to discover how the hell hot water works. The issue is complicated if the hotel has opted for sophistication. I remember what happened once, not too long ago, in the 2020 twist. The shower had all kinds of lights and the owner, who accompanied you to your room, told you about chronotherapy as relaxation at bath time.
The ideal temperature
The truth is very nice, but when you are under the shower, whether the light is red, blue or yellow, what you want is to find the hot water control. that’s when despair comes. The shower is changing colors, fantastic, but you are peeling from the cold.
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You always end up finding the right temperature, even if you have to waste time until you find the right one. Why is there no unification of criteria? It happens in Spain, in France and in any country you visit, now to the sound of the Vuelta, or on vacation, when the bikes have begun to retire to give way the following year to the new ones, which seem fantastic because they shine, but that, in reality, few novelties contribute. There’s nothing to do.