Everyone wants their vacation to be filled with positive emotions and unforgettable experiences, but sometimes plans are forced to be changed along the way. People who travel a lot know that it’s almost impossible to stay away from adventures and curious situations. The heroes of this article experienced stories exactly like this.
10 years ago, after a difficult divorce, a friend of mine went to Turkey and had a short fling with a young hotel entertainer. Upon her return, she found out she was pregnant. She decided to keep the child.
She informed the “daddy” about it, and he blocked her everywhere. She laughed and forgot about him. The boy grew up smart, healthy and very handsome, just like his daddy.
And a year ago, the boy’s father got in touch. Turns out, he got married and had a baby girl. And that feeling of love and affection for the baby girl that woke up in him, made him remember about his unwanted and illegitimate, but still the firstborn.
The guy said he wanted to meet his son. It sounds strange, but they began to communicate, and with his wife too (he didn’t hide this fact of his life from her), and the spouses invited my friend with her son to visit them. The trip turned out just fine, not awkward at all.
And the guy’s father began to court my friend (he had been widowed for 5 years), and his son didn’t mind. Anyway, now my friend marries her son’s grandfather. © Caramel / VK
My mom and I went to Tunisia: I was 18 years old, she was 40.
One merchant at the market really liked my mother. He took me aside and explained in gestures that he was ready to give me a jacket and 12 camels if my mother stayed in the country. And I said, “You have 12 camels, and I have only one mom.
And my dad won’t agree.”
We rented accommodation on holiday. The landlady seemed all right, even gave us bicycles for free. But one evening we decided to have a barbeque, and asked for a grill.
It was already quite shabby: in some places the steel was still showing through the soot, but there were very few clean places left. We grilled some meat, and I went to wash the grate. I was scrubbing it with all my might.
And then the landlady passed by, saw the grate and started yelling that we had ruined it. I was stunned, and the landlady demanded we buy a new one. Her employee came over, took me aside, took the grate and said that everything was fine.
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A neighbor told me about how they went on holiday to Greece with their young daughter. They spent 12 days out of 14 in a quarantined room because their daughter had chicken pox. © Confusion / ADME
For our wedding anniversary, my husband and I went to a 5-star hotel where we planned to play golf.
We were told there was a mistake in the booking, and we were given a room with a king-size bed, but no fridge or other amenities we’d paid for. After an hour of bickering, we were finally given a suite. But that’s not all.
We called down to order dinner to bring back to the room. I had special needs, so we asked if they could be met, and they said yes. But after a while, the waiter said, “Sorry, we can’t help you.”
We tried to go to bed, but some children were screaming behind the wall.
Their father told us, “We are on vacation. I am not telling them they have to be quiet.” Anyway, at 4.30 a.m. we moved to another hotel.
What a great start to the holiday! © Jennifer Klim / Quora
While on vacation, my wife and I took a one-day tour on a yacht, and there was a middle-aged woman among the passengers. I was headed to the ladder to take a swim when I heard the woman talking to my wife — where we came from, what we had visited, how we were enjoying our holiday, etc.
So, I sat down and decided to eavesdrop a little. Then the lady asked my wife:
— How many years is your husband older than you? The reason why she asked this is because I am 10 years older than my wife.
By the way, my wife also doesn’t like it when strangers ask untactful questions, so she answered:
— He’s not my husband. I’m with him for his money. A little later, I asked what that was all about, and she told me:
— Now she’ll have enough to gossip about for a month ahead.
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I had a vacation on Cyprus. We travelled from Larnaca to Paphos for 2.5 hours at night in 90-degree heat in a bus with a broken air conditioner. And the attendant asked each passenger to tip the driver because it was their custom.
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We took a quickly planned trip to Playa del Carmen a couple of months ago. The hotel got great ratings, the price was good, so we were all set to lie on the beach, get some sun, have a few drinks and enjoy some Mexican food. It rained every day.
Not rejuvenating sprinkles, but downpours. Okay. We’ll just hang out at the hotel.
I got an inexpensive room as I didn’t think we’d be there very much, so we didn’t have a balcony. Sitting in a dark hotel room in Mexico isn’t fun. © Bart Crunk / Quora
I have 2 friends, Nick and Vince.
They are brothers. One day, they decided to go on holiday to Thailand with their families for a couple of weeks. So, 2 families get off the plane at the airport and go to get their baggage, and Vince heads toward the toilets.
They have already got their baggage, but Vince is still not there. Nick is calm, but the women start to get nervous. Especially after the phone has informed them that the subscriber is unavailable.
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