Aquamarinejewel
Norm Smith Medallist
Does anyone have any travel horror stories? Whether it be losing all your money and belongings, car broken down in the middle of nowhere, stalked or followed by someone, being sick in a foreign place or anything else that has ruined your day?
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We were travelling to the south of France by train and had arrived in Marseille at around 2 am, so instead of going off to a hotel for a few hours while waiting for the train to go to Monaco, we decided to sit it out at the train station unbeknownst to us the train station was to close for a couple of hours whilst it was being cleaned. So we were told to wait outside the train station.
My cousin and I sat down and we saw a few travellers had fallen asleep who were also waiting for that train… next thing I see these two men sprinting across at full pace and grab the sleeping travellers’ bags and run off with them. Then as I watched them run off I saw two policeman just watching the whole thing and laughing their heads off and giving those two thieves a wave. At that moment, we all knew that they were in on the whole thing, those next two hours waiting for that train seemed like an eternity.
Station re-opened, the train arrived, we got on it and I glanced back to see the policeman laughing and waving to us.
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We were travelling to the south of France by train and had arrived in Marseille at around 2 am, so instead of going off to a hotel for a few hours while waiting for the train to go to Monaco, we decided to sit it out at the train station unbeknownst to us the train station was to close for a couple of hours whilst it was being cleaned. So we were told to wait outside the train station.
My cousin and I sat down and we saw a few travellers had fallen asleep who were also waiting for that train… next thing I see these two men sprinting across at full pace and grab the sleeping travellers’ bags and run off with them. Then as I watched them run off I saw two policeman just watching the whole thing and laughing their heads off and giving those two thieves a wave. At that moment, we all knew that they were in on the whole thing, those next two hours waiting for that train seemed like an eternity.
Station re-opened, the train arrived, we got on it and I glanced back to see the policeman laughing and waving to us.