A delay or misread map can occasionally lead to unexpected adventure, or remind you of how much you need other people
Scheduling two Dublin flights departing from opposite sides of a gargantuan building almost simultaneously is disaster waiting to happen. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA, looking for a cheap hotel. I shouldn’t be in Berlin. I was meant to land in Dublin an hour ago. I’d like to blame Berlin Airport. If you’re going to schedule two Dublin flights departing from opposite sides of a gargantuan building almost simultaneously, you should make this fact abundantly clear on your departures board.
It’s not all needs must. I love to travel. In the last decade, my books have taken me to dozens of different countries. Rarely do I feel like a tourist. I’m usually hosted by interesting locals: writers, artists, academics. Nine times out of 10, we’ll venture off the beaten track to eat or drink in some fabulous, known-only-to-locals spot.
The second category of travel mishap sits beyond the realms of mea culpa, and there’s some small comfort to be found in blaming some other entity – God, the weather, Icelandic volcanoes, Ryanair – for the fact you’re not where you wanted to be.
First and foremost, you’ll experience the kindness of strangers. Innumerable individuals have leapt to my assistance during moments of travel distress. The Galway man who lay down in a puddle to yank a traffic cone out from underneath my car, the bus driver in Virginia who went several blocks off route to drop me outside my hotel because I didn’t know where I was, the elderly ladies in a Portuguese taxi who said they’d pray for me when I couldn’t find the email booking for my hotel.
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