Barcelona City

Spanish public phones work well and have instructions in English. If you can't find one, many bars also have pay phones you can use. Cabins and other phones are adapted to take the euro currency but you're best off buying a phone card (from a kiosko or tabac) which avoids hassles finding the right change. All cabins should display instructions in a variety of languages. Spanish provincial (and some overseas) dialling codes are displayed in the cabins. The ringing tone is long, engaged is shorter and rapid; the standard Spanish response is "digame" (speak to me), often abbreviated to "diga" or the even more laconic "si".

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