This happened more than a year ago, Summer 2009 in was in Hungary for a month in a student exchange program, i traveled to Vienna, Austria for a couple of days and this happened when i was there, and since i'm writing this now it won't be 100% accurate cause some of the details are foggy due to my "awesome" memory.
We were a group of 6 traveling together, 2 turks, 2 english girls and me and my friend from Egypt, one of the english girls wanted to stay behind in Vienna so we were supposed to be 5 people traveling together to Prague and we had reserved the bus tickets online and everything was going fine, the bus was supposed to leave at 6:30 so we decided that morning that everyone should go do whatever he/she wants and that we all should be ready by 5:30 and meet at our hostel to pick up our bags and all.
And so we did we met the turks at the hostel while we got a text from the english girl that she will be meeting us at a certain subway station and which line to take, so it was almost 6 and we were about to take the subway to that station when i got another text from her saying that the bus station is not near the station we were gonna meet at and that we should meet at another one that's nearby the bus station, luckily we got that text in time just before we boarded the train so we started looking at the subway lines map they got to check the shortest and fastest route to our destination, and while doing so we ran into our English friend which had a bit of a surprising news that she's not sure where's the bus station we should be taking our bus to Prague from!
So we took the subway to the 2nd station she mentioned and it was past 6 by that time, 6:10 may be and we started asking random people about the bus station which was called"International bus station" or something like that as i recall and of course nobody knew what the hell we were talkin' about let alone not everyone could speak english, so we started going out in the streets, trying to get any information we can but again we got nothing, then our english friend decided to ask a friend of hers which lived in Vienna for help, she called him and luckily he knew the bus station and volunteered to go there and try to hold the bus till we arrive and it was 6:25 by then.
So now having less than 10 mins to catch the bus we started running in the streets with our luggage and all, through gardens and highways with speeding cars, the turkish guy almost got hit by one, the turkish girl tripped and fell down, the english girl took off her flip flops and started running bare foot, and then it started raining as if that wasn't enough already, it looked like a scene from a bad movie, except it must have been fun to watch.
Luckily we made it just before the bus leaves, we were the last group that boarded the bus, remembering all of that now i can't help but having this huge smile on my face, GOOD TIMES!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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