Thursday Thirteen Curse
This happened during 2004-2005:
1. Our first romantic trip together, a short 48 hours cruise to Finland with a snow storm and me getting…uhum… stomach turnings, read about it here if you missed it:
The turbulent Finland cruise.
2. As soon as we came to Portugal the weather turned bad, it was excellent just before… It switched just like that [*poff*] when we landed there…
3. Bad weather in Paris except from the afternoon when Mr Lifecruiser proposed to me, when the sun was shining and the birds were chirping and the love flowing… which saved that memory for ever :-)
4. In Iceland, where we expected bad weather we got excellent weather, but Mr Lifecruiser got some kind of small whiplash injury from a rough jeep tour in the glacier area instead…
5. We had to cancel 2 months vacation in South Asia because we both got Pneumonia only weeks before the departure and then the Tsunami came…. We lost some money on the cancel, but we didn’t feel up to it by then. Too much pictures from the CNN news of the Tsunami were tormenting us in our minds. On top of that it often comes a lot of diseases afterwards. We were not in the shape of facing anything like that after our pneumonia. It took us months anyway to get well.
6. We had bad weather when we went to London (not that unusual ;-) except from a few hours the last day…
7. I had a very bad cold with fever for one week in Spain and the other week it was bad weather and they haven’t had that bad winter before that and spring weather for ages… But I guess we were somehow lucky, because we were in Fuerteventura which is an island near to Africa and in Madrid it even began to snow! Eeeek… See my goose pimples here or picture proof of my tissue fashion here.
8. One week before going to Scotland I got appendicitis and they had to remove my appendix. I went to Scotland anyway, but was “not really in shape”. Hm. I had to have the stitches removed somewhere and Miss Ass. Lifecruiser came up with a brilliant backup plan before the trip: a Vet! That made me feel really safe to go… But I did find a local hospital out on the islands. It was like being thrown back in time several decades… A very interesting experience that I wouldn’t want to be without! The doctor had a very long BEARD… but he was very professional.
9. It rained every day for about 4 weeks in a row when we were at Fårö (island outside Swedens east coast) last summer. During that time, there were also a lot of other unpleasant happenings I won’t write about here. Let’s just say that it made me and Mr Lifecruiser even more close to each other, if it’s possible to be closer… And I still count Fårö as the most beautiful recreation place ever.
10. We’ve been to the U.S. too, but as far as we count we still haven’t really been there. It was a catastrophy. We hadn’t planned that trip ourself like we use to and there was business and family matters involved too. The weather was not the problem this time. I even managed to lose 3 kilo (6,6 pounds) due to lack of food when we were there. I needed that extra weight, so it was a problem. Next time we go to the U.S. we’ll be fabulous, I’m sure, because we’ll plan it on our own.
11. In South America I had about two whole days before I got a very bad stomach infection. I was close to be needed to have some medical care, but bearly managed without it. It took me about two weeks to get kind of in shape again, before we had to travel to the next country. We had problems to get out of one country and had to pay penalty, because some jerk had put the wrong stamp in our passports and problems to get to the other. We missed our flight at the first stop because of wrong directions given by 3 different airport staff (!) and had to stay a night on a hotel which they had to pay. Almost a night, we came there late and was given an early flight the morning after. Which left us with about 4 hours of sleep.
When we arrived at our beach resort I had one wonderful afternoon there before I in the evening got fever and a sore throat… And my nose…pheeew, it was flooding… I had high fever and couldn’t eat much. The stomach problems came back too. All together with the U.S. trip I lost 9 kilo’s (19.8 pounds) and I wasn’t in need of that weight loss.
12. I may have some bad curse on me, don’t you agree after reading this…? *lol* (At least I’m highly susceptible to illnesses…)
13. Don’t even dare to say anything about our upcoming trip to Ireland…!
NOTE: Why I don’t give up travelling? Because I’m stubborn and crazy - I LOVE IT! It’s all about your own attitude - I decide to have a nice time and I am, despite all that. There is still a lot of very pleasant things in our tripsl too. It had been more boring to stay at home!
- And who knows, maybe I’ve filled my quota with the bad things now…?
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