But having said all of that, there are also some problems. I think we're going to wrap up the travel discussion with some of the problems because we don't want to sugarcoat it for people who are listening and haven't really traveled that much. It's not always...

It's not always perfect.

It's not always perfect. There are some miserable moments, for example, if the weather is bad, weather really makes or breaks your first impression of a city.

I don't know to be honest, I've been to cities where it's been like terrible weather but I went travelling in November. It just shows a different side of the city. It means that you go into like a cosy pub or you go into a cosy cafe which is quite fun.

I can see there’s a theme, so basically your traveling experience is just going around the world getting drunk, with different alcohol in different pubs.

OK. That might be a point.

And going to language lessons to learn how to order drinks.

Why not? I'm on holiday.

Yeah. I don't know, weather is really something that makes or breaks my moods, my experience. Obviously I would feel great about a city, a new destination if it's perfect weather, for me it's sunny dry, if it's wet, I wouldn't really like the city that much.

We got weather. Obviously you got delays and cancellations.

Yeah, delays and cancellations. This especially when it's not even weather. It's like caused by human activities like strikes.

The longest delay I've ever had is like 24 hours.

Because of what? Strikes?

Weather. And that's one of the reasons why I don't like flying is that trains are very rarely delayed, but planes, I've been on so many delayed planes in my time. That's actually one of the reasons why I hate going by plane anywhere.

But I had also the experiences of being delayed on the train. I also had experiences of getting on the train and the train moved forward a bit and move start moving backwards.

Okay. I thought you just got lost.

Yeah. There are tracks I doubt very much. But have you ever experienced any crimes?

Yes, I once went somewhere and I met with a friend of mine. Her dad was the former chief of police in that city. I was with them and someone stole my camera.

That's bold. Right underneath the nose of the former police chief.

I know and bless him he was so embarrassed. He took me to the police station. Obviously everyone at the police station recognized him. I had to fill out a form for my insurance. I think he was more embarrassed about it than me.

I would be probably, especially if I'm like, hosting someone, hosting a friend, is like welcome to my city and then...

Yeah. Exactly.

And he gets pick pocketed. And to be honest, I was once kind of mugged, but that was in London. And that was when I was living in London. So it's not really a travel experience. I've experienced people tried to steal from me, but then I found out so he didn't really get it. Obviously I've met the sort of like sometimes like the drunks and sometimes unfriendly people, but in... overall I think I've been relatively lucky.

I would say when I travel the biggest thing that I face is people trying to rip me off.

You have one of those faces.

I think I just look too innocent, probably that's why.

And also you don't haggle.

I can’t haggle.

安澜不太会讨价还价, 所以经常被宰. 那种被宰了也会硬生生地咽下去委屈的那种人.

I get very embarrassed haggling.

The last thing really is something very subtle, it’s like unspoken rules about certain places like they won't really mention it that much in the travel books, for example, when you go to Italy, right? It's not necessarily unfriendly, but it's just Italians eat after like very late in the evening. So if you go to a restaurant at like say six, they will tell you, I'm sorry, we only serve pizza. Yeah, we don't do any of these things on our menu because our kitchen hasn't fully opened yet.

Yeah, exactly. And for example, you don't really quite know what the etiquette is. I always get sometimes get a bit embarrassed because I'm always bit worried that I'm gonna do something wrong. I'm just gonna be one of those typical tourists.

But you are a tourist.

I know, I know.

But I think really the more you experience, the more perhaps you read up on the destination, the more prepared you will be. It's like a friend recently went to Japan like she's Italian, she went to Japan with her sister. And then before she went, we were supposed to meet up and I was supposed to give her some tips because I've been to Japan so many times since I speak Japanese.

We didn't end up meeting up. She went and she came back and complaining to me like they went to Kyoto. I didn't have the chance to tell her that as a foreigner, if you don't speak Japanese, you won't get anywhere...you won't get into any interesting restaurants unless you book beforehand with the help of maybe your hotel staff or whatever, you just can't, they turn you away.

Yeah, no, I've been to Kyoto. I've experienced that.

If you don't speak Japanese, you look obviously foreign. You will go to restaurant. They will very politely tell you. Sir or ma'am, I'm sorry, but we're fully booked, but you know they're not no, they just don't want to be bothered with you.

Exactly. No.

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