to get to barcelona we took a plane from florence , new york to dcwhere we got fogged in for a day and all manner of disturbing weirdness happened to us , not to mention the hotel fire and me having to wear a robe around the city in the freezing coldthen we missedcorrection : you rerouted us to amsterdam where we hung out with those cute waitresses in their official-looking , navy-blue flight outfits with the red collars , and then we were routed to charles de gaullewhoever that guy isat two in the morning paris time to make our connection to barcelona where we got served fromage on the plane and champagne in those fluted airline glassesfor breakfast , mind youafter flying all night ?