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Travel
P
lans
I live
Sweden, but every summer I like to travel
Britain to visit my family and friends. I hate flying, so last summer I decided that for a
I would travel
bus.
to the brochure I received
the travel agency, the bus would leave Malmo
9.30
Friday evening and arrive
London the following Sunday
7.30
the morning. The journey would involve taking the boat
Trelleborg
the south coast of Sweden to Travemunde
West Germany. Then we would drive
Germany, Holland and Belgium
taking another boat
Ostend
Dover. It sounded wonderful -
least
theory.
fact, the journey was a nightmare from
to finish.
begin
, I made the mistake
not reserving a berth
Trelleborg and Travemunde since it was quite impossible to sleep
to the
combined singing
groups of drunk Germans and Swedes, each trying
outdo the other in
of volume and
vulgarity.
Again, I had forgotten that you are not allowed to smoke
Swedish buses, which made the journey
stops seem even longer than it was
reality. It also meant that when we did eventually have a break I spent the whole time making
for the hours when I had not been able to smoke,
the result that I could not be bothered to
waste valuable "smoking" time
queuing up
a meal.
the time we reached London I was a physical and mental wreck! I had not slept or eaten properly
almost thirty-six hours and all I wanted to do was sleep. So I booked
a really shoddy hotel next
Victoria Coach Station and slept soundly
twelve hours,
the same time vowing that never again would I make the journey from Sweden
Britain by bus.
fact,
that experience, flying took
a whole new dimension and far
hating it, I would now not dream
travelling any other way.
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