Watch it!
I was in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, at the train station trying to get to Pula. My train was due to arrive at any moment, according to my watch, and sure enough a train pulled up at the platform. I hoisted my huge backpack and suitcase on to the train and made myself comfortable.
The train set off and what I thought was the ticket man was walking down the isle so I got out my ticket but he was actually checking passports. Strange I thought as I was off to somewhere within the same country. I didn’t really think anything of it, then a second passport control check was done, a third, to which I thought it was getting a bit crazy and then finally the ticket man. I showed him my ticket and he shouted at me in a language I didn’t understand and I was told to stand by the door. I waited for ages and then he returned with another man. I told him where I wanted to go and apparently I was on a train that was about to cross the Slovenian border – whoops!
They two men stopped the train, made a phone call to get another train to take me back and shoed me off the train on to the tracks (with no platform!) and the train drove off. Meanwhile I am stood by the train tracks with my giant luggage in the middle of the night in the middle of know where with no idea what was happening. Eventually another train came and collected me and dropped me back off where it all began.
I got off the train and then freaked out as I thought I would have missed the train that I should have gotten on and that I would have to wait 24 hours till the next one. I tried to communicate with someone who worked at the train station to when the next train was and he just keeps pointing at another train. That’s when I realised I forgot to wind my watch backwards 1 hour!
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