Bad experiences on trip

[Anonymous]

I can always find the wonderful parts of trips and erase the bad ones from my memory. I’ve never gone on a trip that was so bad I wouldn’t return.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have had a bad time every time I've been to Paris, for various reasons. I avoid it now.

Can you elaborate on your experiences?

I’ve been thinking about taking my teen there but have concerns about the pickpockets and the bedbug outbreak.

Generally rotten time there on a family trip once / Got stuck walking in pouring, freezing rain for 1 hr on NYE because subways closed stupidly early, no taxi in sight / Got pickpocketed on the train getting into the station as I was getting off with my sleepy groggy 2yo in my arms and holding my 4yo's hand. I am normally hyper vigilant about that shit and all it took was that one moment of distraction.

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That does sound awful, sorry about your negative experiences there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won’t name the country but I had an experience where (in the same one week trip)—I was verbally sexually harassed and then physically assaulted in public and not a single woman or man came to my defense (and it was two different incidents)
— I was briefly detained because “my paperwork wasn’t in order” (it was but he said if I gave him $20 he’d overlook it)
— the lock on my hotel door didn’t work and when I complained they first said it didn’t matter and then finally switched me to a room with a broken toilet
— I got a stomach virus or food poisoning or something (which made the broken toilet an even great tragedy)
— my flight out was cancelled indefinitely and I ended up taking a bus to a different city to catch a flight

This was not a country I wanted to ever return to! I think it was the sexual harassment that bothered me most.

In a funny follow up….i happened to remember the name of the embassy person I called at some point to ask for suggestions about the flight issue. (He was nice but had no real suggestions.). That low level embassy staffer later became a tiny tiny bit infamous for about 15 minutes, and when I read his name in the paper, I was like “I remember you!!!!”

You are going to have to elaborate on the embassy worker. Was he infamous for an embassy related incident???