Oh oh...
1. MISSING THE BUS/TRAIN/FLIGHT
Thus, in horror order. Because it is not the same to miss the bus from Malaga to Torremolinos as the AVE from Malaga to Madrid. And let's not say the plane from Malaga to New York. Tears, stammering (often in a language that is not ours), a pang in the heart. Wi-Fi search to verify, with horror, that we have no money left in the account to allow us another ticket. Tachycardia, heart attack, death.
two. WRONG WITH THE VISA.
if i told you the stupid one What have I done with the visa? Like the time -with the purchased ticket- I couldn't travel to Laos because my passport he had a few days left to have a full six months validity. Or when I couldn't get back from Bangkok to Hanoi (where my flight to Spain departed from) because the Vietnamese visa requires that at least 30 days pass between one entry and another. Glassy eyes, feeling of defeat, calls to the foreign ministry from a booth you can't get to work. And finally a single output: buy new tickets.
Some bureaucracy causes cold sweats
3. WRONG HOTEL.
There are SO MANY ways to fuck it up in this category.... Book in the wrong dates , do it with the wrong number of nights... That the reservation, simply not occur because there is an error in the system and it's twelve o'clock at night and there is no free bed in the whole city... Or my favorite: believe that the accommodation is relatively close downtown to see, with horror, how the taxi is moving away kilometers and kilometers of all forms of intelligent life while desolate landscapes follow each other behind the window.
4.**RELYING TOO MUCH ON GPS (I)**
Google Maps has two problems when guiding you to your hotel. The first is that it is configured by humans. Those humans can own a lodge, close it two years later, open it in another province, and leave your old name forever , like an evil dot on the map, to which Maps will guide you without delay. Hence the second problem: many times, after entering the name of a hotel, the GPS will direct you to the most likely outcome. Now imagine that there are several similar host names, that "most likely" is on the other side of town , and that when you arrive, after enduring hours of traffic, you realize that it looks more like to a brothel than to the charming inn that they had sold you. BECAUSE OF COURSE, IT IS A DIFFERENT HOTEL.
Wrong, wrong!
5.**RELYING TOO MUCH ON GPS (AND II)**
The sophistication of Google Maps reaches unsuspected levels, you think, when you discover with amazement that the same sends you along a highway than along a path that runs between dunes , on a deserted beach. A path without light and decidedly impassable, which you have to travel with a rented car while the driver resentfully remembers each of your ancestors.
6. MIX IT UP WITH CURRENCY EXCHANGE
As a general rule, it will be only the day before going home the one you internalize to how many euros are equivalent to thirty yuan. Until then you will have been thinking "What a bargain!" or "How expensive!" so absolutely random for the IMF.
Don't even try: you're not going to hit
7. RETURN WITH MONEY WITHOUT CHANGE
this is a hit especially when you travel to countries where the currency is most devalued than in yours and whose inflation grows without stopping. The effect is the same as close your eyes and throw all your bills into the sea: a useless waste.
8. TRUST ATMS
You live in Spain and you are Up to the crown of the cashier asking you 80 times if you are sure you want to perform that operation. You try the ATM from another country thinking that the procedure will have the same hints of insistence, to realise, shortness of breath through, that BOOM : you insert the card and it gives you the money without even mentioning if the operation carries a commission. Easy, simple, demoralizing: a roller coaster of emotions available to everyone.
the devil loads them
9. GET WRONG WITH THE GASOLINE
Do you know how to read. In fact, you have a degree, and even a master's degree. But I don't know what nonsense you get when you travel, that, between two options, you tend to choose the most detrimental. "Gasoline or diesel?" "Diesel," you hesitate. IT WAS GASOLINE. BOOM again.
10. UNKNOWN THE WAY BACK
The little birds sing, the clouds rise, you leave the hotel with the naive joy of a tourist and at night, when it's time to return, it turns out that you have no idea WHERE. You can't afford to turn on data on mobile without putting a liver up for sale, or worse, it has gone out on you; no one speaks your language, and the adventure of traveling suddenly takes on macabre tints. But don't worry, despite crying from exhaustion due to being wandering aimlessly for hours, when you return home, it will seem a very funny anecdote what to tell your friends. And a minute later, you will be planning, with dreamy - and foolish - eyes, your next vacation.
It happens more often than you think