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This story is about a handful of young, but responsible (important!) Girl, how she cuts her backpacks for the world and gets in an extreme position, which their parents dared tell her much later. Because sleeping in the streets of Barcelona is not an everyday situation. But come in every nice line.
It wasn’t the problem with planning a holiday
More than two decades ago, when I was a young college student, with my girlfriends we decided to We visit the picturesque Spainwe make a tour: Barcelona, Sevilla, Madrid. It was also obvious to choose the destination because one of us was already studying there, spoke Spanish and knew the cities well. Eight girls and two boys – the attached parts – so many of us set off. We had an accurate plan, Our seized accommodationour flight and train ticket. It didn’t even occur to any problem.
Viewing Gaudi’s buildings was part of our holiday planConstruction Photography/Avalon / Getty Images Hungary
We started the two -week Spanish tour in Barcelona. When someone has been there, you know that Gaudí’s buildings are impressive, the Sagrada Familia Cathedral cannot be filled with and the seafood lovers can survive every corner. Spent in the city We planned a beach rest on our last daybut before we did this, we went to the train station to make sure we are in Seville the next day’s trip. We were also provided with the ticket office, so our day was peacefully.
When the vacation takes an unexpected turn
Equipped with our luggage, we went out to the train station in time, down to the platform, where, after the security check, the guide told us that unfortunately our tickets were not valid for that train. In vain he tried to talk to him in Spanish my girlfriendthat we were informed differently, tied the dog to the stake so that we could not get up without a ticket. We, Uzsgyi, rushed to the ticket office, where we were somewhat impatient, but we were waiting for us, but we found out all the tickets on that train … By then we had panic, but after the quick cap council we decided to buy the ticket the next day.
We did so, and according to the democratic decision, with our towels and values, understand money, passport, went down to the beach and left the big luggage in the train station.
However, our accommodation was no longer in Barcelona that night, and it didn’t fit into the budget to stay somewhere for an extra night, leaving the street.
It seemed quite fun, after dinner we walked up and down the Rambla, but it was around 11pm in the evening, who had broken the thread. To keep the soul in each other, we went back to the beachand we entertained each other with poems. To this day I remember, the Golden I performed a poem, in shorts, in a strap t -shirt, with a wonderful turquoise cloth on my shoulder, which I have been in high esteem ever since. The others took their stomachs with laughter, and at that moment, only that mattered. Not to panic.
Sagrada Famiia has been impressed as a universityDavid Ramos / Getty Images Hungary
We didn’t dare to fall asleep on the beach at night, only when it was enlightened. We were lying in a heap on our still warm sand on our towelsand someone was always awake, we changed each other. Finally, when we saw the shops and cafes open, we caught ourselves and got up to have breakfast.
We thanked our luck that although we were scolded, we did not get any trouble during the night.
Not only did we reach the train to Seville that day, but they also let us down.
When we arrived seven hours later at our new accommodation, we were all winking at the bed. That night, no one had to be anesthetized. Today I meet the little team at any time, always recall what happened, time has beautified the memory of that night.
No airplane that is not late
Szilvia’s story is not today, but it can be familiar to many of us. He took part in an organized way to Greece with his brother ten years ago. They started home at dawn on the last day of the holidaybut the charter machine fails. By late afternoon, they were bribing at the airport and during that time they did not receive any information on the return trip. As far as care is concerned, it was just a ham sandwich.
One of their fellow travelers turned out to be vegetarian and meat -free, but received the same ham. Needless to say, after a few snacks, he got sick and the food wasn’t left in it …
The situation was resolved by a mechanic who had repaired the machine with another machine. Szilvia told us that probably Normally, he would have worried himself to death about the apparently sufnituning solutionbut he was terribly fed up with everything, just wanted to get home, so when they finally got into the machine that stood on the sun and then drowned from the heat, he tolerated it with stoic calm. Finally, Szilvia and her brother arrived in Hungary intact.
Just don’t be sick in Russia
Kitti traveled with her partner, brother and girlfriend to the Russian vacation: Moscow and St. Petersburg were the destination. Everything went well, the first few days was great, when Kitti’s partner got a food poisoning from a street bought on the street. The vigorous young man got so bad that he could barely get out of bedI had to call an ambulance. That is, it should have been if the hotel receptionist had spoken in any other language that was not Russian: English, German and French could have been.
The Hungarian Embassy was no different either, as a Russian -speaking chef picked up the phone…
The only help was a friend of Kitti’s brother in Moscow, who from the other end of the city to the hotel, called an ambulance and finally spoke to the Hungarian embassy – in Russian.
Kitti’s partner was almost dry because of food poisoning, so he had to be taken to hospital during the holidaysChanintorn.v / Getty Images Hungary
Kitti’s partner was escorted to the hospital with an ambulance while the boy’s parents bought him a flight from Hungary to get home. But he wasn’t sure he would get to the airport, he was so dry. Finally, thanks to the Russian acquaintance, everything was fortunate, the boy was weak but intact, and in Budapest his parents waited and took him to hospital immediately. And the three girls broke their journey to St. Petersburg the next day.
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