Memories of an unexpected holiday

The word Holiday is usually fix with the idea of relax, enjoyment, happiness and good memories. People sometimes spend a whole year waiting for this precious time in which friends, family and relatives gather together to plan what would be a perfect time. Some people enjoy that time when they decide where to go, destination depends on a wide variety of factors and reasons: Season, interests and economy.

After reading about how lots people won free tickets to travel around the world, I just can´t avoid myself telling you about the bad luck I usually have on holidays. Last embarrassing holiday I have was in summer time, although I was running out of money, some friends and I decided to have our cheapest holiday ever. Some of you could ask yourselves where we went, maybe you think it was an isolated islet or the glorious waterfalls, but it wasn´t. Historical buildings sounded really boring and rain forest was so far, actually, we couldn’t afford it. Despite we hadn’t any travel agent or even a tour guide, we just hitch-hiked to San Clemente del Tuyú, the cheaper the better!

Once we reach San Clemente, it was difficult for us to find accommodation just because we hadn´t booked any hotel, and guest-houses were too expensive. We have money just for a three days holiday, so finally we dropped into a camp-site to hire a tent. After unpacking ours stuff and willing to have some rest and above all, forgetting beach´s changeable weather, we were woken up for a terribly downpour which flooded the area.

With no dry place to stay, we decided to go to La Havanna for a snack. However, the worst and hilarious thing would be coming. Please, keep this picture in your mind, we were really wet, in a bad mood, with almost no money in our pockets, some of us were just walking absent-minded, others just arguing and trying to find someone to blame and I was really starving. We sat on a table and asked for some cups of coffee, with every cup the waitress brought some small paper sugar bags, which smartly we hid it in a friend’s little bag in order to save some sugar for our tent. By the time we had to pay the bill, my friend took his wallet out and with it all the small sugar bags which flew through the air. Waitress looked at us astonished and people around us began to laugh. We giggled and left that place as soon as possible.

Summing up, no more unexpected holiday for us, now and then when we want to go to some place, we prefer planning everything!!

Leandro Achilli

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