Annoying niggly things that have happened during holidays
That haven't ruined them as such, just been annoying and niggly.
Went snowboarding a month or so ago. We were staying in a self catering place.
One night when I was just about to go to sleep, I reached over to the bedside table where I had a glass of water, to have a quick drink. The light was off so I was carefully feeling around for the glass when I accidentally pushed it over and smashed it.
The next day when I got up, I mentioned it to my friend, thinking it was no big deal, until my friend mentioned that there was a clause in the chalet information that means if you have any breakages at all, then its an instant 400 euro charge.
I came up with a couple of plans to avoid this - Plan A was to get a similar glass from one of the bars and plan b was to buy a whole set of glasses from a supermarket (there were 6 in total) and throw away the old ones that wouldn't match the new ones (more than likely).
After we'd been for a drink in most of the bars, we realised that all of the 250ml glasses that they had were all coca cola ones, so I started to have a look around the supermarkets, but to Noah vale, because they didn't have any either.
Anyway, I ended up haveing to spend 50 euros on a taxi into the town to buy a set of glasses. On the way back I was determined to not have to pay another 50 euros, so I got a coach to a nearby village. It stopped about 3 miles away from the resot, so I decided to walk the rest of the way...the pavement ended after about 1 miles, so I then had to walk along a mountain top road, hugging the side of the road.
I managed this for about 30 minutes until I gave up and waited in a layby to hitch a lift. Luckily someone stopped to give me a lift up to the resort.
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I haven't been on holiday in years
I'm in India at the moment
and have spent a lot more time than usual in the loo
I spent a significant amount of my week in Tunisia last year on the toilet
Picked up some sort of bug which led to an entire week (and it took a few weeks after to get completely back to normal) of rusty water...
I'm absolutely positive that more came out in those few days than had ever gone in.
Perhaps the highlight (lowlight) of the ordeal was waking up in the small hours of my birthday to be sick and the force of heaving resulted in me double-ending and shitting my pants. What a birthday!
Touch wood (cloth) it's not been that bad yet
I just can't deal with the barrage of spicyness but am too prudish to say no when someone offers me something to try
Did you get charged?
No, sorry, didn't say..
I managed to get a set of glasses from a big supermarket, so chucked the other ones away.
400 Euros for a broken glass?
Sounds like you would have been better off doing substantially more than 400 Euros damage to the chalet and chalking it up to experience...
Last holiday centred around watching Falcao destroy Chelsea,
which isn't really what I was hoping for but shit happens. More annoyingly, I realised after years of avoiding the sun that a Mediterranean-ish holiday that involved going to the beach and having a swim in the sea is actually really nice. Discovered this on my first day in Nice, it then rained for the next five. Fuck you, Mediterranean holidays. I'm going back to freezing in Scandinavia this year.
About 5 years I went to Spain
and got beaten up. On my birthday. And now my jaw clicks every time I move it. That was annoying and niggly.