My best holiday vs the worst one

Hello everyone, how are you all doing today? Welcome to my entry for the hive learners weekly featured content and the current topic is "The best and worst holiday".

The best

It's always good to start with something good, right? My best holiday was back in 2019 and it was the Easter period. My university gave a one-week break for everyone to go celebrate Easter with their family and coincidentally, one of my friends had her wedding planned around that same time. I'm very close to her family and they see me as a member of their family, so I had to travel before the day of the wedding to go help them with preparations.

The venue of the wedding is in the Eastern part of the country (Anambra) and it is also my state of origin. I have never traveled to the East without my family, so it was very exciting for me to take that trip with my friend, who is the brother of the bride and also my roommate at the university. I got to the bus park very early and quickly took the front seat by the window but my friend disagreed and we argued about who should stay by the window, but in the end, I won 😆

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I had a lot of money saved before that trip and I planned to buy food and snacks while on the road, that's one of the things I love about traveling. The wedding ceremony went smoothly and the best part was all the food and drinks I had free access to. My friend and I were put in charge of the drinks and we smuggled a few into our room and shared them later at night.

After the wedding was over, I stayed back for two more days to help clean up everything used for the ceremony, and after that, my friend, his younger sister, and I had to return to the south because school activities will resume soon. We took lots of food and drinks with us when leaving and this time we didn't take a public bus, we rode in an SUV and it was a lot of fun because we were playing music while singing and dancing as the SUV cruised to the city.

The worst

It has been over 5 years but I can still remember it clearly like it was yesterday. I was traveling with a friend to another city and we were to take a public bus. On getting to the bus park, we were about to pay the transportation fare and get our tickets but we heard another bus announcing a much cheaper fare, it was cheaper by over 50% and it was just too good to be true.

We decided to save our money and go for the much cheaper one, which means we will have more money for snacks and food. Right from the bus park, I was already buying snacks and drinks, we were happy that we got a very cheap bus. Halfway into the journey, the bus broke down in the middle of the road but luckily, we were close to a bus stop and we got hold of a mechanic.

But the repair was taking a lot of time and at one point, the driver and the mechanic disappeared for over 2 hours. Damn! We were stranded and unfortunately, we can't get another bus with the little money we had left. All the passengers were complaining bitterly and we regretted taking that bus. The driver arrived after some time and said he had to go to another town to buy the parts needed for the repairs.

After some minutes, the repairs were down and we continued our journey. By this time, it was already evening and we still had a long way to go. Long story short, we arrived at our destination around 11 pm and we had to call someone to come pick us up but there's another problem: our phones were off, the battery died earlier. It was very dark and there weren't people on the road, I was scared as hell that we might get robbed.

We had to walk some distance to look for a store that was still open at that time and luckily, we found one. My friend begged for a charger and he quickly charged his phone to have enough power to make a call. He called his cousin and he came to pick us up. What if we weren't able to locate anybody around? We will probably have slept outside in the cold.

I learned my lessons after that experience; Always have lots of money with you when traveling and never board a cheap bus that seems too good to be true. The bus wasn't even part of a bus company, just a random private bus and we didn't even think of the risk of getting kidnapped, I'm definitely wiser now and won't take such risks next time.

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