Travelling with friends (or people you just met)
Off to New york in a few weeks! I know, I have a very weighty carbon footprint to worry about - hoping some of it is offset by the fact that I dont own a car and walk or public transport it everywhere. I try to eat mostly organic and try to limit my food miles. God who would think just existing these days would get so complicated. Travelling with friend and partner, which should prove interesting as she is single and we are celebrating our anniversary. Hmm...
It's always tricky travelling with friends, you just dont know what your relationship is going to be like at the end of your trip. It reminds me of the time I was backpacking through Europe by myself and met this Aussie girl who on a whim suggested we go to Dublin for a week. I didnt know her from Adam (or should that be Eve?) but I was footloose and carefree and went wherever the wind took me - aaah those were the days. She was fine in the beginning, as we slept in dorms with 20 other people and hung out with a Norwegian "artist" (who was staying in our hostel for free as long as he helped in cleaning it - which made him more of a cleaner than an artist but anyway) and the Irish guys who were friends of friends of hers who thankfully steered us clear of the tourist hole known as Temple Bar, and went to Irish poetry recitals for the free wine, but then suddenly near the end of the trip she turned into - silent weirdo. Suddenly she was pissed off at me, to the point that on the last day of our trip, she completely stopped speaking to me. It was so out of the blue (and I know when people say that they're denying they did something wrong, but really I wrecked my brain and couldn't come up with anything) so I asked her and she was adamant it was all fine. But it was weird, on our bus ride to the airport - silence - at the airport - silence, except for when she asked to have separate seats from me. I kept asking her what was wrong, but she said it was nothing. Aeroplane ride - silence. Journey on train back to London - we sat opposite each other but she didnt say a word. To this day I dont know what that was about since I never saw her again. Except bizarrely enough many years later when I was working at a big media company, she started working in the same department as me! In fact she sat opposite me - but guess what, not a word! We didnt even admit we knew each other. I told my boss at the time about this but she couldn't believe it was true. Later on, after I left the company, my boss contacted me and said that she indeed was a real strange person. I think she was troubled thats all, she told me how when she was at uni some ambulance guys beat her up because they thought she was a drug addict. What can you say to that?
In any case that's an extreme example of when "Trips with friends (or people you just met) go wrong", but I'll be taking heed on my New York trip nonetheless and hoping to keep my friendship and relationship intact by the end. Fingers crossed.
It's always tricky travelling with friends, you just dont know what your relationship is going to be like at the end of your trip. It reminds me of the time I was backpacking through Europe by myself and met this Aussie girl who on a whim suggested we go to Dublin for a week. I didnt know her from Adam (or should that be Eve?) but I was footloose and carefree and went wherever the wind took me - aaah those were the days. She was fine in the beginning, as we slept in dorms with 20 other people and hung out with a Norwegian "artist" (who was staying in our hostel for free as long as he helped in cleaning it - which made him more of a cleaner than an artist but anyway) and the Irish guys who were friends of friends of hers who thankfully steered us clear of the tourist hole known as Temple Bar, and went to Irish poetry recitals for the free wine, but then suddenly near the end of the trip she turned into - silent weirdo. Suddenly she was pissed off at me, to the point that on the last day of our trip, she completely stopped speaking to me. It was so out of the blue (and I know when people say that they're denying they did something wrong, but really I wrecked my brain and couldn't come up with anything) so I asked her and she was adamant it was all fine. But it was weird, on our bus ride to the airport - silence - at the airport - silence, except for when she asked to have separate seats from me. I kept asking her what was wrong, but she said it was nothing. Aeroplane ride - silence. Journey on train back to London - we sat opposite each other but she didnt say a word. To this day I dont know what that was about since I never saw her again. Except bizarrely enough many years later when I was working at a big media company, she started working in the same department as me! In fact she sat opposite me - but guess what, not a word! We didnt even admit we knew each other. I told my boss at the time about this but she couldn't believe it was true. Later on, after I left the company, my boss contacted me and said that she indeed was a real strange person. I think she was troubled thats all, she told me how when she was at uni some ambulance guys beat her up because they thought she was a drug addict. What can you say to that?
In any case that's an extreme example of when "Trips with friends (or people you just met) go wrong", but I'll be taking heed on my New York trip nonetheless and hoping to keep my friendship and relationship intact by the end. Fingers crossed.
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