Traveling Broadens the Mind
A disastrous holiday
- Tell me, have you ever had a holiday that went wrong?
- Oh yes, oh quite a few actually.
- Which was the worst?
-The worst? Well, I suppose it was while I was at university my girlfriend Susan and I had two weeks well no, no, one week, one week of absolute hell and then things got a bit better.
-What happened? And did you fall out or rosin it ?
- No, no it wasn't that. The first thing that went wrong was that the country we were going to decided have a walk few days before even going then.
-Oh no!
- Mmm. So that was the end of that. But the plane we were going on the stopping of Rome.
So rather than not having a holiday at all, we thought we'd go to Italy. Very nice. See the sights. Go to the beaches and get fat with pasta. We were at the airport waiting for the plane and a friend of mine who lived near the airport comes seeing of.
So we were having a few drinks in the bar and joking with this friend of mine, Peter, saying `Poor old you in cold rainy England. This time tomorrow we'll be in
Italy on the beach.' And I went down to see if the flight had been called and discovered that it had gone. - Oh no! How?
- Well it was a terribly stupid mistake. We hadn't checked the time of departure. I was sure it was going 9 something but it was going at 19 something which of course is 7 o'clock. So we were actually there in the bar, we were went about this.
- Oh so what did you do?
- We were determined to have our holiday. The irony was that Peter was now going back to his comfortable home and we were stuck in the cold and the rain at 10 o'clock at night. You see, it was a charter flight so we couldn't book another one. We lost our money and all the other flights were booked up. Well, we got a train to the South Coast and coped the midnight cross a channel , froze to death all night, it was a terrible crossing the buildings sick everywhere.
And eventually we got to I think it was Dieppe and then a train to Paris. We got to Paris very early in
- Tell me, have you ever had a holiday that went wrong?
- Oh yes, oh quite a few actually.
- Which was the worst?
-The worst? Well, I suppose it was while I was at university my girlfriend Susan and I had two weeks well no, no, one week, one week of absolute hell and then things got a bit better.
-What happened? And did you fall out or rosin it ?
- No, no it wasn't that. The first thing that went wrong was that the country we were going to decided have a walk few days before even going then.
-Oh no!
- Mmm. So that was the end of that. But the plane we were going on the stopping of Rome.
So rather than not having a holiday at all, we thought we'd go to Italy. Very nice. See the sights. Go to the beaches and get fat with pasta. We were at the airport waiting for the plane and a friend of mine who lived near the airport comes seeing of.
So we were having a few drinks in the bar and joking with this friend of mine, Peter, saying `Poor old you in cold rainy England. This time tomorrow we'll be in
Italy on the beach.' And I went down to see if the flight had been called and discovered that it had gone. - Oh no! How?
- Well it was a terribly stupid mistake. We hadn't checked the time of departure. I was sure it was going 9 something but it was going at 19 something which of course is 7 o'clock. So we were actually there in the bar, we were went about this.
- Oh so what did you do?
- We were determined to have our holiday. The irony was that Peter was now going back to his comfortable home and we were stuck in the cold and the rain at 10 o'clock at night. You see, it was a charter flight so we couldn't book another one. We lost our money and all the other flights were booked up. Well, we got a train to the South Coast and coped the midnight cross a channel , froze to death all night, it was a terrible crossing the buildings sick everywhere.
And eventually we got to I think it was Dieppe and then a train to Paris. We got to Paris very early in