This was highly entertaining and very useful for dampening my raging case of FOMA (fear of missing adventure) that has beset me after reading your previous travel logs. Thank you for the dose of reality, especially because those stories are the most fun to read anyway.
All travel lovers have experienced this—probably more times than they'd like but it's nice to see it’s something we all share as a common denominator. Your post made me realize that I can’t afford as many mishaps with accommodations now that I’m traveling with a child. Back when it was just me and my partner, we would’ve made do with sleeping on the floor of a train station. Hah, times have definitely changed!
I loved this Emily!! Took me back to my backpacking days. I got the bed bugs too, but that was in Malaysia!! I heard you saying something about Spain and Valencia. I'm moving to Valencia in August! Or that's the plan anyways. Look forward to finding out whether or not you decide to put down roots or continue on the backpacker trail!
Ahh no way! I'm a few months ahead of you on those plans — heading to Valencia in March and hoping to make it my long-term home base. We should definitely connect :)
Love the misadventures. So much more entertaining than all the hashtag blessed travel nonsense. We are nomadic and have made so many accommodation mistakes. One apartment still had grandma's ashes on the dresser and an infestation of palm worms.
I guess many of these mishaps fall under the "we'll-laugh-about-this-one-day" category, though scalding water and bed bugs probably don't apply here. It sounds like wherever you wind up "permanently," you'll always have that adventure/wanderlust itch to scratch, likely on a regular basis. Hang on to that sense of adventure!
Everyone does love a good disaster story. Wishing the worst to our dear old landlord in Rome who screamed at us for not providing 24h notice to use the washing machine 🥲
Cultural misunderstandings and all else is just a little friction to help us grow. But the accommodation disasters are always the biggest travel shocks. On several occasions, in the midst of flooded apartments, cut off power supply and cohabitating with weird (crazy) hosts, I have sworn to go back to my hometown, which I left two decades ago, and live out the rest of my days there. Never travel. Never move again.
This was highly entertaining and very useful for dampening my raging case of FOMA (fear of missing adventure) that has beset me after reading your previous travel logs. Thank you for the dose of reality, especially because those stories are the most fun to read anyway.
Funny now, though not at the time, I’m sure! Way to make your mishaps fodder for entertainment.
All travel lovers have experienced this—probably more times than they'd like but it's nice to see it’s something we all share as a common denominator. Your post made me realize that I can’t afford as many mishaps with accommodations now that I’m traveling with a child. Back when it was just me and my partner, we would’ve made do with sleeping on the floor of a train station. Hah, times have definitely changed!
I loved this Emily!! Took me back to my backpacking days. I got the bed bugs too, but that was in Malaysia!! I heard you saying something about Spain and Valencia. I'm moving to Valencia in August! Or that's the plan anyways. Look forward to finding out whether or not you decide to put down roots or continue on the backpacker trail!
Ahh no way! I'm a few months ahead of you on those plans — heading to Valencia in March and hoping to make it my long-term home base. We should definitely connect :)
Love the misadventures. So much more entertaining than all the hashtag blessed travel nonsense. We are nomadic and have made so many accommodation mistakes. One apartment still had grandma's ashes on the dresser and an infestation of palm worms.
Looool. Imagine renting your place out along with grandma? People are wild.
Loved it. The thought of bed bugs makes my skin crawl. Definitely one of the worse parts of travel.
I once had to leave a hotel by the roof, that’s a fun travel story for another day!
I guess many of these mishaps fall under the "we'll-laugh-about-this-one-day" category, though scalding water and bed bugs probably don't apply here. It sounds like wherever you wind up "permanently," you'll always have that adventure/wanderlust itch to scratch, likely on a regular basis. Hang on to that sense of adventure!
Everyone does love a good disaster story. Wishing the worst to our dear old landlord in Rome who screamed at us for not providing 24h notice to use the washing machine 🥲
Cultural misunderstandings and all else is just a little friction to help us grow. But the accommodation disasters are always the biggest travel shocks. On several occasions, in the midst of flooded apartments, cut off power supply and cohabitating with weird (crazy) hosts, I have sworn to go back to my hometown, which I left two decades ago, and live out the rest of my days there. Never travel. Never move again.