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Speaker 1: Lorraine Christian. In August, my sister and I flew to
Speaker 1: Delhi to watch her twenty four year old son compete
Speaker 1: in the World Power Athletics Championships. Incredible six day trip
Speaker 1: that quickly became a saga. Just starre canceled our Melbourne
Speaker 1: Singapore flight, so we missed his first race. Oh that's awful.
Speaker 1: Our rescheduled flight the next day was today due to
Speaker 1: a loose seeding panel. Then again in Singapore, we circled
Speaker 1: for an hour in a storm, which meant we missed
Speaker 1: our connecting flight to Delhi. When we finally arrived in Delhi,
Speaker 1: our luggage did not make it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: The worst part my sister had written all her son's
Speaker 1: race times in the diary packed in her lost bag.
Speaker 1: When we checked online, we misread the schedule. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I thought the finals time was the qualifying race. When
Speaker 1: he realized our mistake when my son texted to say
Speaker 1: that he had made the final, Oh my work. It's
Speaker 1: actually just a sad story, sad case. It's just sad.
Speaker 1: This is not great radio. Deborah's got a better one,
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 2: Deborah, Hi, Christian, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good. Welcome to the show, Deborah. So what is
Speaker 1: your holiday from Hell story? Your regretation?
Speaker 2: Well, when I was nineteen, I went overseas on my
Speaker 2: own and did a tour. When I got to the
Speaker 2: hotel in London, I found out that my roommate was
Speaker 2: a lot older than over fifties. Then I found out
Speaker 2: that I had the right room, but the tour people
Speaker 2: had booked been to and over fifty five to another
Speaker 2: undert dirties to us. Oh, I had all these elderly people.
Speaker 2: That was fine, that work. That did work out, okay, Christian,
Speaker 2: because I made a lovely friend out of my roommate.
Speaker 2: Bridge some word puzzles, yeah, crosswords all that. Yeah. But
Speaker 2: then when we got to Venice, it went pear shaped
Speaker 2: again because we were getting ready to go on to
Speaker 2: a gondola drive and all our luggych had to go.
Speaker 2: Can we go on with us? And then when they
Speaker 2: threw the luggage into the gondola, mine ended up in
Speaker 2: the Grand Canal luggage.
Speaker 1: It's a stinky as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, yep, yep. I had photos, all my clothes, everything,
Speaker 2: so needless to say, I had to then, you know,
Speaker 2: like try and retrieve whatever I could. But it was
Speaker 2: absolute chaos.
Speaker 1: So what did the gondola guy then jump in and
Speaker 1: get it?
Speaker 2: Well, no, I know he was there. He just stood
Speaker 2: there with his blank look on his face, going, oh
Speaker 2: what do I dote? Absolutely you broke fix it? Yep yep.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so that was my That was my trip
Speaker 2: and I really like sort of couldn't wait to get
Speaker 2: home there to tell everyone about it. Because back then
Speaker 2: it was snail mail, so you know, Mum and Dad
Speaker 2: had no idea what was going on with Doesn't that.
Speaker 1: Feel right now when you say that wasn't that long ago, Rudy,
Speaker 1: But that feels like a century ago? Well? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: postcards you would send a postcard? Does anyone send postcards anymore?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: You can send an immediate one in your phone photos
Speaker 1: and that I should love sending postcards. I should bring
Speaker 1: it back. Yes, yeah, well it's an incredible story. Your
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, thank you so much, Christian.
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Speaker 2: Oh that would be great, Christian, that would be lovely.
Speaker 2: I'd go back to Rome again and do it all again.
Speaker 2: We might be over fifty five, so you'd be perfect
Speaker 2: for that. You actually I am over fifty five, so yeah,
Speaker 2: i'd be I'd be right to that tour. Now.
Speaker 1: Phew, that works out better than it could have done. Really, yeah?
Speaker 1: Should I am only thirty three? Just sound older? Hey, Deborah, congratulations.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling so much. Christian measure take care,
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