"Clare, when you're off travelling, DO NOT SCRIMP ON TICKETS - I spent a three day train journey sat on a Chinese man's lap. THREE DAYS!"
What a way to start Friday morning! I admit, I cannot (yet) top this story... but it does sound like a challenge :)
So far, my 'best' travel story involves me being hospitalised in Albania, mostly for the look of shock on people's faces when I open with that line, but actually, if we go down the nightmarish journey's route of stories, the reason I got hospitalised is up there too.
Basically the ferry crossing was a nightmare and I got massively dehydrated, chundered for four straight hours and was very thankful the Irish guy who owned the hostel had a local friend to pass out bribes at the hospital for the nurse to get me clean needles. (Berat Backpackers is great - say hello to Scott if you're passing and be careful of the raki...) I haven't told that very well, but it's getting late and I want to get this out while inspiration is with me!
I've also had a neck massage from some ostriches in South Africa and done the 1988 Olympic luge track in Calgary.
So yes, what are your best and worst travel stories guys?
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Worst travel story - being taken on a family holiday to Pakistan aged 14 by my Dad, who didn't fully explain to me the strict dress code involed in heading to the bits up by the Afghan border (this was pre 9/11 btw), so I merrily went along for the whole trip with bare arms and bare hair, and got stared at rather a lot to say the least. It was quite an experience though, and we did get a guy with an AK47 to come with us wherever we went, which lent a certain glamour to proceedings.
Best travel story - Definitely drunken nights out in Beijing - one of the guys on the same trip as me was Norwegian, and with Scandinavia being the spiritual home of binge drinking he certainly showed us how it was done! That was before we even mixed in our crazy mentor's love of drinking games and rice wine. Bloody carnage, but bloody great.
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