If I could give one piece of advice to someone abroad traveling on the weekends it would be to not expect your travel plans to go perfectly 100% of the time. Sounds a little grim, I know but trust me, it happens and when you\u2019re staying a hostel and the Wi-Fi doesn\u2019t really work and you\u2019re trying to message your mom not really freaking out, it happens.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to think somewhere along the lines in my planning I went wrong but I didn\u2019t, the travel gods just had other plans for me. It\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t make it to our flight on time or our flight got delayed, all of that went perfectly fine. It was arriving in Edinburgh, Scotland sleep deprived and only being there for an hour when our flight back got cancelled. To be fair our arrival in Scotland was accompanied by a rainbow but for whatever reason we were not going to be lucky. For what reason did the airline give us that our flight got cancelled? They didn\u2019t give one. I\u2019d like to say getting the full refund was pretty nice but when you only paid 16 pounds for your return flight, you would rather just cut your losses. (Although I did take the refund because college) So we get to our hostel, we check in, and start scrambling to find a way home and of course the Wi-Fi isn\u2019t working. We checked every airline for a flight back Sunday night or Monday morning because I scheduled a class on a Monday. After every airline was checked and they broke my heart by telling me there were no available flights I thought this is it, I\u2019ll never make it back to London. I\u2019d like to point out that my sleep deprivation kept me a little calmer then I normally would\u2019ve been in this kind of circumstance. We looked at every transportation alternative and it got to the point that my friend said, \u201cYou look for food and I\u2019ll try and find us a way home.\u201d Bless the transportation system from Scotland to London because we found one. To make this train though, we were going to have to get up at 3am Monday morning. After calling the train station and having some firm words, we were able to get on at a closer stop and were rewarded two more hours of sleep.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not trying to say that your travels won\u2019t go well or that it\u2019s all doomed, all I’m saying is that if something does happen that it is fixable and you\u2019ll look back on the experience and laugh (although I wouldn\u2019t have minded being stuck in Scotland). This small mishap didn\u2019t ruin our trip one bit and I highly recommend going to Edinburgh, Scotland but every transportation system did have it out for us that weekend. Count your transportation blessings and three cheers for coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If I could give one piece of advice to someone abroad traveling on the weekends it would be to not expect your travel plans to go perfectly 100% of the time. Sounds a little grim, I know but trust me, it happens and when you\u2019re staying a hostel and the Wi-Fi doesn\u2019t really work and … <\/p>\n