Great Escapes: How we survived a nightmare

It’s not that nobody wants to hear what a great time their friends and colleagues had  on holiday – perfect beaches, amazing food, efficient and hospitable hosts. It’s that their audience can only listen to so much.

Sure, the mojitos at a little bar in Havana were the best you’d ever tasted, the beds in your boutique hotel in Barcelona were beyond blissfully comfortable, and the tour guide in Glasgow gave you a history lesson you will never forget.

But what the people who didn’t get to go on a bucket-list-ticking tour of a lifetime enjoy most is when things went awry. The tales of missed connections, unbooked rooms and inedible food are grist to the mill for those left behind.

With that in mind, how about one trip around the world that encompassed two airline strikes, stolen aeroplane seats, destroyed tickets, threats of arrest and a final outburst that may be the most foul-mouthed invocation of romance ever uttered?

You can follow that unfolding travel disaster HERE.

CHOOSY CRUISE: Month-long Mediterranean bucket list bonanza HERE.

LOCAL HERO: Pay half for one of Melbourne’s top hotels HERE.

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