The Worst Journey in the WorldAspley Cherry Garrard was the youngest member of the Scott Polar Expedition when he and two others lost their tent to the winds of a night-time snowstorm. They spent hours in temperatures below -70°F stumbling about the ice floes hoping they'd bump into it as it was their only hope of survival.
OK, so that was bad, but we reckon you've had worse. We know how hard you lot are.
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chthonic, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 12:40)
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Northwestern TrainsOn the return journey from Preston (I'd gone to see what the uni was like, in the snow), the train was a few hours late to the station by which point we were frozen. Then we got on the train to be told that the heating had broken down. Ages later, we pulled into Lime Street where we realised that the Wirral Line trains were terminating at James Street; meaning a walk across town. It wasn't fun.
Another time, I was coming back from seeing Coldplay. The train driver couldn't be bothered taking us all the way from Manchester to Liverpool and so told us that "due to unforseen circumstances" we would terminate at Lea Green station, just outside St. Helens. We were told that a replacment bus service would come, but it never did. All members of staff disapperaed on the train remarkably quickly. Cab drivers that night must have made a nice packet taking everyone onto Lime Street.
(, Sat 9 Sep 2006, 20:03, Reply)
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