As most of you already know, I really enjoy travelling and seeing new places and it may seem like I’m always having a great time and I do at the end of the day but things always go wrong. ALWAYS. I’ve never really spoken about all the things that have gone wrong so here I am today, giving you the T.
Lithuania
Not only did the hostel we had booked get infested with bedbugs but the guy that ran it gave our beds away whilst we were out having dinner. I ended up staying up all night in the lobby waiting for someone that works there to come. When the manager eventually came at 9am we had a pretty heated argument which led to us leaving and getting our money back.
Rome
When we first arrived in Rome we were told to be very careful when we go out at night. That same night someone got stabbed right outside where we were staying and the following night my friend that I was with disappeared so a bunch of us were running around Rome in the rain till 2am looking for her.
Barcelona
Now, I’m not really afraid of flying but I can admit that my flight back from Barcelona was terrifying. As we were accenting after take-off all the lights went off and a bright flash consumed the plane and before we knew it we were dropping down. We were later told that we were nearly hit by lighting and that for the rest of the flight we will be experiencing very bad turbulence. You know it’s bad when the flight attendants start to panic.
Edinburgh
We decided to take the train up from Kings Cross and after spending all day trying to change out train times (my friend missed her previous train from Devon) all the trains from Kings Cross ended up being cancelled for the weekend. I eventually flew to Edinburgh a year later.
Antalya
Half of us ended up getting on a different flight going to the same destination only an hour later, however we didn’t know that Antalya airport had two different terminals and didn’t have signal so we couldn’t call each other to find where the other was. We ended up spending hours trying to find each other and it was in the middle of the night when we eventually arrived home.
Budapest
Booking flights after work seems like a great idea till you land in a country where no one speaks English nor is willing to help and it’s late at night and snowing like there’s no tomorrow and you’re just walking around in circles trying to find your accommodation.
Copenhagen
One of the main reasons I wanted to go to Copenhagen was to visit Tivoli Gardens; I was so excited… turns out they were closed meaning we had ruined our whole day as we planned everything around it.
Morocco
If I could change one thing from this trip I would make sure we had a guy with us just so we felt safer. We kept getting followed and touched and things were yelled at us just because we were two girls walking alone. It’s not like we were being disrespectful; we were both completely covered and kept our heads down as we walked. There were girls there in short shorts and mini dresses but nothing was said or done to them because they had a guy with them.
Dublin
Everything was going great, we were there for St Patricks Day then all of a sudden there was a storm and no one was allowed out. We had no idea if we were going to be about to make our flight back to London or if it would be safe at all.
Cologne
So whilst we were in Cologne my cousin told us about a cute little town just outside with a really nice castle on top of a hill. Obviously we wanted to travel here. We spent ages trying to get there and when we did everything was shut, it was the evening and the town seemed dead. Creepy dead. Everything looked perfect, perfect houses, perfect paths… but it felt like we were honestly about to get murdered.
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