Train Pain
I was In Europe and from some of the lesser known cities it can be really hard to find a flight to another lesser known city without having to change planes three times. The journey that I wanted to do was from Croatia to Greece but it was proving a nightmare, in the end I decided to get a train. The train was supposed to take 33 hours but we had a bed on the train and brought a lot of alcohol to last us so I thought it would be ok.
The train had no buffet and didn’t make any stops long enough to buy food, we had brought a little though. We immediately started chatting to other travellers on the train and had a great time, by the end of the evening there was the steward and a few other people we met, playing accordions and guitars in our cabin and we had a blast. My mum went to sleep and so not to disturb her I went in the cabin next door to continue chatting the night away, then went to be a few hours later.
When we work up my mum couldn’t find her wallet anywhere, we had waist pouches to be secure and that’s where we put our money, however, I had no cash on me as my bank card had snapped so was borrowing off my mum but we looked everywhere and the wallet must have been stolen. That was all her bank cards, all the money we had. I had money in my bank account but I couldn’t get it out because of the broken bank card and banks wont send replacement cards abroad.
Luckily one of the other passengers lent us some money so I could phone home and get money wired to us but the whole process was a nightmare. We couldn’t even report this to the police as the train crossed borders neither the Croatian or Greek police wanted to hear about it. We then had to wait around for our bank cards to be sent to our home addresses, and then for family to courier them out to us. It was such a nightmare, so now I always make sure I have at least three different bank cards in three different places!
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