When the trip is bad! Important warning:
It’s a New series of blog articles! I use FB a lot when I travel so that I can update my family and my friends daily on my adventures, my misadventures, my cute photos, etc.
I just realized that I usually write whole “poems” there, so why not transfer them (exactly as they are) here? Spontaneous moments of my trips. They will certainly not win a pulitzer price, but they are 100% authentic, And I like the idea!
Some of them were originally written in Italian, so they will lose a little humor during the translation process, but I really want to continue doing this whatever happens.
People seem to love these little stories, especially those shared on my Facebook account, probably because they are what makes a trip really remarkable, and I share them almost in “real time” with funny updates 🙂
This is the original Italian version on my FB account!
For my Facebook page (where I also share nice images and stories; you can follow it by Love him here))
Finally, I am in Australia / Kangaroland!
You were already waiting for photos of Melbourne, right?! Uh, no! After a trip in which I saw (from the plane instructor), the earth going from day to night twice (😱) and looking at this plane on the screen, moving slowly in the world … I finally landed! Including a real -time vision of the external camera of the flap (so cool).
The first thing I thought was “wow, I survived !!” Even if I hadn’t closed my eyes in more than 24 hours, I’m here!
But the odyssey could not stop on the plane, right?! 😂 I thought I would have made my first feared customs nightmare, but instead, between passports, luggage allowances and customs checks … everything took place as fluid as silk!
Given my luck, I almost expected a Melbourn rental car To offer me their services for free! 🙂
I couldn’t believe it. Even taking the Skybus From the airport in the center of Melbourne was like a walk in the park, so easy! I still couldn’t believe that everything was going perfectly. It was not my style. I mean, seriously, something always happens during my trips. Very very suspect.
My charming friend “Fritz”: how I changed my mind on taxi drivers … from kidnappers to saviors!
-I was once kidnapped by a taxi driver in London,, So forgive my skepticism on the category
I finally arrived in downtown Melbourne, but I had to make a little more effort; It is 11 p.m. here (11 a.m. in Italy…. Maybe?!), And I find myself in a dimension of nonexistent space.
Meaning: “Where do I devil am I?!” With the “where”, which means both a place in Melbourne but above all a place in time.
I decided that being so exhausted if I took public transport at this time of the night would certainly end in Toronto, where I took the right bus, yes … but in the opposite direction! Upsy 😀
Armed with a file containing all the documents, including printed cards, I made a taxi, a decision that probably saved me from sleeping under a bridge from Melbourne Unknown…
The place that I had booked was only 10 minutes from the center, so I started to chat happily and laugh with the taxi driver, explaining that if he had been able to deliver the package (me) to the right destination while I would have given him very much advice.
We arrive shortly before this beautiful house in a residential area without stores or very busy roads nearby. Everything is very quiet. I look at him, perplexed … Are you sure that’s it?! “Positive, my lady!” This is the right address!… ”
Oh shit, it does not seem exactly a bed and a breakfast, but hey, what do I know of B&B in the country of kangaroos after all!? I try to stay calm.
I did not yet have time to buy a local SIM card, so I was still without internet and calls. I asked my friend Fritz (as I called the taxi driver) with puppy eyes (dead) if he could call the property with his mobile … and so as not to leave me alone in a deserted and dark street.
Now that I think about it, I had to look like the ugly version of a remix between “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Bambi”.
Very kindly, my friend Fritz says he won’t let me fall like a dog on a highway in August, and I had some assurance. Either way. Maybe…
Beauty with sleeping woods and the beast (when I transformed Ito into an angry wandering cat!)
The phone rang, and a sleeping voice replied by saying, “Hello, what time is it?!” … I explained that it was 11:30 am in the evening, that I arrived on the other side of the globe, slightly tired, and that I had a reservation with them.
The sleeping lady tells me that it is late for recording (?!) She also said that she would try to ask her friend David if he could wake up and go down to open the door to me. Wait a second. What? “Wake up!”…. “Yes?” SeriouslyMrs?!?
I am in Australia in money for the first time in my life, a tired dog, and I do not even know if someone will open the door of a room that I had already paid ??
In the meantime, my friend Fritz had put the armor as an official protector of unlucky Italians everywhere in Melbourne and told me that he was waiting to have a place to sleep.
Rent the Lord to my charming Fritz taxi driver! (And I am agnostic) 😀
Ten minutes pass, and there is not even the shadow of this mysterious David. I recalled “Sleeping Beauty” (blessed it) and I told her that she could not leave me in the middle of the road or sleep inside the car trunk of my friend Fritz !!
So far, I was so tired that I didn’t even have the strength to be angry … until she gives me the good news. And the bad news.
The good thing is that David was finally standing and descended, and the bad … They thought that I was not going to introduce myself (hmmm, what?!), So they had the brilliant idea of renting my room to a Korean girl, and all the other rooms were Obviously full. GREAT!
My friend Fritz and I look silently for a moment … He told me to go talk to David, who was taking a look at the door while Fritz was postponing my suitcases in the car, in case.
To be short, David lets me enter, and I say: “Sorry, huh … and to contact me by e-mail and ask for confirmation instead of giving the room to someone else, right?” In addition, I was definitely in the right because the recording was still until midnight.
I started insulting poor David who turned out to be just a friend of the owner, whom he had taken on instructions. Mortified he tells me that … I can sleep on a sofa! 😱
I had dreamed of this moment for hours … this fantastic moment when I was given the key to my room, I would have seen the most precious thing in the world: a bed.
What I see instead is a sofa in the living room of an unknown house, located between the front door and the kitchen door. I swear I was about to vanish. “”
Sofa-beds, smelly camels and Koreans
I decide that I would risk my life if I did not resume my poor former members somewhere, so I have to accept the compromise of the night (with all the intentions to have the reimbursement of this nightmare as soon as possible).
In the meantime, poor David is preparing the “bed”. I take the time to say goodbye to Fritz (with a promise of beatification for him), then it suddenly comes back to me.
I realize that not only I am finally in the country of kangaroos, with my body curse in Arabic, but also that after having traveled for more than 30 hours … I feel a frightening camel crossing the desert of the Sahara.
I stick my raw body in the bathtub, where I have to use the last remaining force, I don’t have to fall asleep, and I finally see the bed (sofa), where I take the opportunity to finish a job that I had to finish before the Australian trip.
With the eyes resembling those of a tortured mule, I finish at 3 am, and I think I barely had time to deactivate the computer before entering the coma for 12 hours …
I woke up … with the Korean girl just in front of me, looking carefully. She says to me in Korean English … I will leave your room in about an hour ”😱 …
No, it’s quite well, take you gently, don’t rush! It doesn’t matter if this room is mine and you got the start at 10 a.m. and it is now at 1 p.m. Thank your lucky star that I slept well otherwise I would have sent you back to Korea by kicking your ass 😂
It’s all in Melbourne and my room (finally!) In the studio! Welcome to Australia MATEEEE !!!! 😂
