What are the dangers faced by travellers?
#3. Meeting people
This is no problem until you want to contact one Juan to meet up for a beer and then you have to hide your surprise when a different Juan arrives and you spend the evening frantically making small talk.
#2. Travellers lose things.
I seem to lose underwear. After rinsing items through in the shower I have a tendency to leave my knickers draped over shower heads and taps in hostels.
If you follow my blog you will also know that I am often getting lost. I spend hours retracing my steps, sitting in little cafes and studying maps or wandering around museums after taking a wrong bus or a wrong turning.
But in my mind, getting lost is a good thing. You can discover hidden gems and make new friends, and you can lose yourself – just make sure that you get out of town before you turn into that rambling hippy on the beach who took the wrong turning twenty two years ago.
wristbands – a danger of travelling
#1. The hidden danger of travelling – the wrist band
Many travellers adorn themselves with colourful bands around their wrists. These scrappy pieces of woven cord and fabric tell a story, plotting ones journey and prompting memories of friends met.
But these cloth bands can be lethal.
The stray ends dangle in food, drinks and on plates, collecting microbes and passing on germs. The situation is not quite as dire as you might expect because on the upside, everytime you take a shower they do become clean again.
The biggest hazard is fire. Stirring supper over a gas flame, the careless or hungover traveller can quite easily find flames licking up their bands, although after time, this propensity to burn appears to diminish, probably in direct correlation with the amount of dirt that they become coated in.
To sum up
There are many dangers faced by travellers but sometimes it is the small ones that can cause a melt down and a panic rather than the larger dramas which crop up.
If you want to travel, don’t let anything put you off – get out there and give it a go.
If you want to read about a REAL danger – such as the time that I faced a potential robber who was armed with a knife, Click here
Ha ha – I am in so much wristband danger! 😉
It’s very real Ali. I have seen the look of disgust when my bands trail in cups of coffee
Although these seem like ‘small’ dangers in comparison to others, they are, as you say, ‘real’ and need to be considered. Not too much danger over losing ones knickers? **Chuckle** XXX
Have you ever tried to buy knickers abroad? I tried in Spain – they were either MASSIVE or I could only get one leg in the top. That’s a real problem
Not too much danger over losing ones knickers! **Chuckle** Good points to be considered though!
this is a cute list. It is the small things that get you in the end.
thanks Shayan. Nobody tells you about the small things
Oh the dreaded lost underwear! It’s the worst, when you can never pack enough as it is, and then when you can’t buy new ones (because they don’t fit in Asia, ha). Laundering on the daily is no fun!
I know – and the local laundries wreck them so its a no win situation