Traveling with a companion.
Due to personal problems, I needed rest so that there would be no nervous breakdown. With funds it was bad and there was no one to go with. I wrote an ad on the site for finding fellow travelers that I was looking for a fellow traveler in order to save money and not to be alone. First, men responded with claims why I was looking for a woman as a fellow traveler. Someone offered himself as fellow travelers and paid for the trip, and someone offered himself to one number. but everyone pays for himself. I was shocked. Why do I need a stranger in one room, and even for my own money? ! Then the women began to write. We didn't agree on the first one. With the second one, we almost became friends in 2 weeks of correspondence and telephone conversations. The rest had to write a refusal. We both live far from Moscow, because of problems I did not know the exact date of departure. Then her deadlines began to run out because of her problems. To the hotel. which suited both of them 3 days before departure, there was a good price, but it is no longer possible to pay for a ticket through the account 3 days before departure, and my fellow traveler did not dare to send her part of the money to the name card of the travel company manager. We decided that we would buy a ticket the day before departure in the agency where earlier I took vouchers with my ex-husband, and my brother and his wife; we will spend the night in a hotel in Moscow. It seemed that everything was discussed, we agree on everything... But it was not there. A few hours before leaving the house, our first skirmishes with her began. She suddenly decided, for some reason I don't understand, to take a ticket to the first agency she came across (I refused), she spoke in raised tones. I tried to fix the relationship, but it didn't work. I even had a thought that, maybe, since there are so many obstacles on the way to this trip and the relationship with my fellow traveler went wrong, and I caught a very bad cold, then take it and not go... But no. I did not want to let down a person who had already bought a plane ticket to Moscow. (My first conclusion is - do as you need. You will not be good for everyone, but you will ruin everything for yourself for someone. ). When we arrived in Moscow, due to the small number of seats on the plane, prices with a departure the next day jumped sharply by a decent amount. I had to take a ticket to a budget hotel, which we kept as a fallback. On this day, the price for it rose to that which was 3 days ago in a good hotel, in one that both wanted to. (My second conclusion is that if you have chosen a specific hotel and want to relax in it, then do not delay buying a ticket. )
In Moscow, they rented an inexpensive hotel (a fellow traveler booked through the site). There was no cheating in this regard. Everything is clean and decent. Since I was in a hurry to fly because of my fellow traveler (this was the last day she could fly), I packed my suitcase in the last hour before leaving home, and didn’t change the money, because temperature did not even leave the house. Without a single dollar in my pocket, going to the airport was not a good prospect. It is not known what the exchange rate is there and whether we will have time, in general, to the exchanger, since this is Sherementyevo, terminal C. As a result, I exchanged money at the railway exchanger (banks were already closed) at such a rate that it turned out if rubles were in Egypt exchanged for dollars, it would have been more profitable there. (This is my third conclusion - you can’t get together in the last minutes. And if you don’t have time to do anything before leaving because of a cold, then it’s better to postpone the trip. But I always don’t want to let people down, but it’s worse for me).
On the plane, my fellow traveler again began to talk to me with discontent and an authoritative tone. Only now I realized that we would no longer have normal relations with her, there was nothing to lose, and I began to respond in kind. Surprisingly, it worked better than normal words. The mood was already quite bad, the physical condition too. There was some desperation. I realized that rest. which I dreamed of will no longer be. I have already written a review about the hotel and accommodation. I don't want to repeat myself.
This is my first time in a foreign country without my husband. It turns out that you can’t go there calmly, even though I’m 42 years old and I’m not a top model. Although . and then my fellow traveler pricked me (Something no one sticks to me, but everyone is to you: both Arabs, and border guards, and Russian tourists !!! ) I understood that it was a hint that I myself present myself this way or look. Terribly embarrassing. By the way, I’ll run ahead a little, when I returned back, I realized that it was not my appearance and not my behavior, since I was sleepy at the Sharma airport, without makeup, of course, in more than modest travel clothes, and this did not interfere with the bar employee , in which they smoke, pester when it turned out that there was no one else there. Well, if only the fact that I smoke gives the right to harassment. So the fellow traveler also smokes. That's where it was uncomfortable. He tried to hug me, and at the very hand, from fear that someone would notice it, they were trembling. I pushed him away and he left the bar, leaving him unattended. It was so disgusting!! ! But most of the men didn't do that, they just made compliments (even the Israeli border guards).
Naturally, during our communication with a fellow traveler, we did not discuss everything to the smallest detail. And in vain !!! ! I like to swim - she doesn't. I love sea excursions - she doesn't. I dreamed of riding horses, but one was afraid - she is indifferent to this. I like to take a lot of photos for memory - she herself does not like to be photographed, but in correspondence she promised me that she would photograph me without any problems. Naturally, I asked for each photo, as for Christ's sake. And how do you take a photo if she doesn't want to go anywhere. She likes to just sit in one of the hotel bars, drink coffee and smoke. I can’t sit like this for more than 30 minutes, I want to see more interesting things. I want to walk along the promenade in the evening and in the shops. She is not interested. I'm scared alone. In Sharm, a new hotel is being built very beautiful, all the people go there in the evenings. I called her to take the bus for 10 minutes for 1 year. pound per person. She doesn't want to. As a result, I traveled alone. And so in everything. Certainly. Maybe I'm wrong about something and not objective. Of course, everyone has their own tastes. But how I regretted that we did not discuss everything to the smallest detail in advance. Naturally, I tried to find pluses on the trip, but..... If someone does not have the opportunity to go on vacation with a loved one, and one does not want to, get to know each other better, do not give up other fellow travelers until 200% not sure if this one is right for you. I ruined my vacation myself, adjusting to a stranger. Don't repeat my mistake!! ! Have a good rest and travel companions, if not a truly close person, then at least someone close to your soul !!!! !
