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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 1:23:59 GMT
...belonging to Vicki. Let's see if you can keep it up for the first 9 months of 2006. Actually, hopefully not as you'll be having a good time! Maybe just when you get to that country in Central America I can't remember the name of that you said was a dump...
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 1:29:21 GMT
He he, you know I can always find something to moan about Its actually pretty sad for me cause I will probably have call this baby a day and its starting to dawn on me that in a month's time I will be in Agra And I think most of Central America is a dump
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 1:31:56 GMT
There's beauty among the dump-ness.
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 1:33:30 GMT
I'm gonna rough it more than when I woke in a youth hostel dorm with a cockroach on my chest......
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 1:40:27 GMT
Lovely. I don't have any travel horror stories. Even almost missing our flight home and getting stranded in the Czech Republic turned out to be a fun adventure.
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 1:58:37 GMT
My bro' had been spot-on on the transport all week, catching the right trams etc everywhere. I was rather ill on the penultimate and last days so trusted Matt to get us to the airport. We needed tram then bus to the airport, only we ended up travelling to the end of the line on the tram to some strange place. I can't remember much (shows how ill I was as usually I remember everything I've done) but it involved running around looking for a phone-box with a hefty backpack on while almost dead, finding it didn't work, running around looking for another phone box and not finding one so catching a tram back towards the way we came...getting off and looking for more phone boxes...another one that doesn't work, one that only accepts cards...then eventually one that works. I usually don't use taxi's but had kept the number of this 'English speaking' one just in case. It turns out that they could hardly speak or understand English and although I'd told them the street and name of pub we were outside they wouldn't come out unless we gave them a building number and there weren't any. It was a very long street and in the end I just made one up. Just as I was about to phone another company for a taxi, the one arrived. Despite saying we needed to be at the airport as quickly as possible, the taxi driver seemed so casual. Perils on the way to the airport included getting stuck behind a learner driver doing about 15 miles an hour. Then we got to this massive roundabout, with NO CARS on it at all and completely clear visibility, and this learner driver just stopped there for aaages, with us stuck behind. At the airport we hared around looking for the check-in desk amongst the crowds. It turned out we got to the gate with about 20-25 minutes to spare, which was quite a relief in the end. That story seems longer than it should have been. There was also the time in Denmark when my Uncle shut my keys in a locker about 50 miles away from where we were and even further away from the airport. Luckily someone had found them and handed them in there, but we had to wait for the next train driver to deliver them to us and when he arrived he'd even forgot he had our keys!
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 1:59:32 GMT
I can't think of any horror stories that have turned into fun adventures, more of a case of thanking some one up above that i wasn't drugged, raped or murdered, but hey i was a woman alone which makes it much different.
I hope to still come on now and then, but of course it won't be as often, if anyone wants to keep in contact MSN is the best bet.
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 1:59:33 GMT
Strange, now I've just replied to a post you deleted. *Starts another rant thread* Or am I just going krazy?
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 2:00:33 GMT
Yeah cause I don't like askin questions and then someones leaves, makes me feel a bit desperate!
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:01:08 GMT
There's always the next day.
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 2:02:11 GMT
"pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee talk to me" lol
so how did you make it fun?
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:05:48 GMT
I don't think I 'made' it fun. I just like excitement and adventure! ;D It was exciting if you think about it, would we be back home later that day, or would we be stranded in a foreign country?
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 2:07:45 GMT
I got stranded in Lima for 2 days and I shat myself.
You're a right little traveller ;D
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:13:55 GMT
I'd never put myself in any situation like that on purpose but it does get the adrenaline going.
A film set in Cambodia I watched recently has made me scared of going to places like Cambodia and Lima. City of God didn't make me scared about going to Rio though.
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:15:35 GMT
I'd never put myself in any situation like that on purpose but it does get the adrenaline going. Though, as the Robert Frost poem, I do like to take the road less travelled! www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/robert-frost.html"I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference"
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 2:25:59 GMT
Lima is a total shit tip but if you wanna do the Inca Trail you have no choice
What happens in that film then?
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:32:02 GMT
City of Ghosts...it was just a bit spooky and how I'd imagine the dark side of dodgy countries to be.
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Post by vicki on Dec 3, 2005 2:32:59 GMT
East London ;D
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Post by TheAlex Equivalent Battenberg on Dec 3, 2005 2:40:04 GMT
The scariest European city I've ever been in at night is Nottingham. Someone tried to sell me a Big Issue then have it back off me for free when it was obvious they weren't a badged seller*.
*that wasn't an example of Nottingham being scary.
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Post by Chloe on Dec 4, 2005 10:43:47 GMT
well nottingham is 'assasination city' these days or so i'm told. and it has the crappest castle in the world.
i have no travel stories but wanted to join in nonetheless
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