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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EurostarWhen I was 14 I went to France with a friend, jouney there was fine, journey back, Eurostar broke down joust out of Lillle. We waited in a tunnel for about 5 hours, at which point they deceided to hand out food boxes, which consisted of a small bottle of wine and a sweet. Cue two 14 year olds getting mind numbingly pissed. After another 5 or so hours we were getting a bit ill and hungry, not to mention pissed off. Eventually after another two or so hours train reversed slowly back to Lille (why only after 12 hours?) where we were denied access onto the first 3 coaches back to a youth hostel that Eurostar had kindly arranged due to the fact we weren't mothers with children (the fact that we were both 14 and on our own clearly escaped their logic. So after another 4 hour or so wait we were taken to a hotel to sleep for two hours until 6am then carted back off again to the newly repaired Eurostar where we returned to london at about 3 mph. All in all, a 40 minute journey turned into a 35 hour journey. And no compensation.
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Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sun 10 Sep 2006, 18:41,
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