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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MegabusDon't do it. National Express is the Orient Express in comparison.
On my last trip, from Leeds to London, I was the only English person on the bus. The others adopted their various national customs for boarding: fighting, pushing, squeezing, cajoling, feigning spinal injury, sending their children to the front to lie on the ground etc.
"Don't sit downstairs," said the driver. "The airconditioning's bust - it's like an oven." Upstairs, a man of Indonesian origin had filled three chairs with packing crates and industrial-sized sewer pipe. Most of the people there had clearly not washed since their teens. The toilet was broken too.
The journey was extended somewhat when a number of key junctions were closed, so we had to go via Oxford - a mere six hours compared to two on the train. Only the train costs 2 million quid, doesn't it?
Don't go to frickin' India or China - just get on a Megabus for the authentic Thrid World experience.
(, Wed 13 Sep 2006, 14:55, Reply)
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