A DRIVER OFFERED US HIS HOUSE TO SLEEP, WE GOT IT...
Heading to London we got a
lift in Manchester by a middle-aged man. In the car we started chatting about travelogues
of our Milan-Scotland travel and he said to be Ray Stubb, a BBC speaker (never heard about
him :-o). He seemed really interested and enthusiastic, and we got friendly in few hours.
Then he asked us if we wanted to accept his flat in London to spend the night; I thought I
haven't understood correctly, but we were so tired that we didn't hesitate to take his
proposal. I knew it was a risk, but if you don't wanna risk in this kind of travels it's
better you stay home.
When we got in London he took us in a cute rented house with the garden, in
short a typical English house. The only things in
the house were hundreds of VHS of his speaking at the BBC. He showed us the house and said
:"here are the keys, I'll go sleeping to my girlfriend". I thought :"what?
You'll leave us the house? !!!" But when I realised the situation he was already
left. We spent in his house the nights before the concert, then I vacuum cleaned quickly,
left a sing to thank him, locked the door and shot the keys in the mail hole. I've never
seen him again..THANKS RAY!
A CRAZY DRIVER. BUT
WE SURVIVED.
We were in Albertville
hitch-hiking for a lift toward Lion. It wasn't a good place to get a lift, in fact we were
almost at a cross road in the town, but we didn't find anything better. We were showing our sign indicating "CHAMBERY"
from the side walk and the people passing by looked quite oddly. It took almost an hour
till a young guy stopped and let us on.
Obviously since being French he didn't speak a word of English, but there were other
"details" that didn't let us to get bored during
the trip even if he shut up. First of all the way of driving: I think he thought to be in
a rally and he would have won a prize if had reached Chambery as fast as possible. Not
only a matter of high speed, but even crazy overtaking. I was in the backseat and I held
every stuff could be used as handle. In
addition he was listening the song " American Pie" of Madonna; OK, I like it,
but it was so loud that the speakers were trembling and the sound twisted and, even worse,
he set the repeat, hence, for more than one
hour we listened the same song!!
Somehow we got in
Chambery..THANKS GUY!
GET OUT FROM PARIS WAS TOUGH, BUT.
I was aware that getting out
from a big city hitch hiking is tough; in particular to find the right place where ask a
lift.
We reached rollerblading the beginning of the highway north of Paris and started to hitch hike, but we were
in a inappropriate place, aside of a curve,
where cars were too fast, drivers were paying attention to the road signs and everybody
was going in a different direction. It took more than one hour when a girl stopped and
quickly, before a coming car could bump her, let us on. I said her we were going northward
and she nodded. Then I started chatting without paying attention to the way when, after a
while, I realised we were under the tower Eiffel!!!! She thought we
were heading in and not out of Paris. I
really freaked out cursing, anyway she was going to do us a favour, thus I didn't beat her
;-) But I insisted she took us back, and after a while we were in the same shitty place we
were 4 hours before without a lift.
Then we decided to try another place on another
high way. It was even worse, and I started getting discouraged, but we found two Swedish
guys stranded as us hitch hiking, hence we shared the expense for a cab to the first
petrol station (4 km northward); we got there and in ten minutes we had our lift..GREAT!!!
THANKS GUYS
|
