…….. have been bundled together into a miscellaneous blog post – enjoy!
- Don’t use aged cotton buds to clean your ears when alone in a hostel. Cue some embarrassment when the stick snaps and you have the bud left in your ear canal. Trying to explain to a non English speaker in reception that you need their assistance in removing the aforementioned offending item is not easy. When they finally understood my predicament I had a guy poking inside my ear with a paperclip whilst three more people watched. Not my finest hour!
- Upon arrival in Singapore I had no accommodation arranged, and yet again there was no space at the first few hostels I tried. The outcome at hostel #4 was that I could pay for a room as opposed to a bed in a dormitory, I happily agreed. Three backpackers then arrived also having no luck at finding accommodation. It was suggested that I share with the girl, which meant everyone had a bed and it was cheaper too – hooray!
- Could have sworn I was here…
However it wasn’t mentioned that the rooms were doubles. Meaning I had to share a bed with someone I had only just met…… To make matters worse I woke in the middle of the night, sat upright and said “We can’t sleep here we’ll get eaten alive. There are too many mosquitoes and sand flies” I then went on to say that the beach wasn’t the best place to sleep. My new aquaintance said “Well it’s OK we’re not on the beach”. I pointed to the flashing light on the air conditioning unit and proclaimed it to be atop a mast of a boat just anchored off the beach. Oh the embarassment!!
- Upon meeting an American on my travels I mentioned I was living in Australia. He then asked me if they had the Euro as yet. Geographically challenged!
- Chester chicken!
- In Sri Lanka establishments are not allowed to serve alcohol when it’s a full moon. Ingeniously on that evening you are served beer in a teapot. Well needs must…
- There is a brand of chicken in Brazil called “Chester”. True!
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