Some of the best memories that you bring back from a holiday are the stories of the funny, embarrassing and utterly unbelievable things that happened to you on your travels. So here are some of the best stories from around the net.
Irish skin and the sun just doesn’t mix
A group of lads were heading out to the Greek island Mykonos for a post-leaving cert party a few years ago and all was going well… until they arrived at the hotel, that is. Like most 18-year-old Irish lads on a summer holiday, they hit the bar and started drinking early. However, one of the lads had red hair and obviously forgot that his skin wasn’t necessarily designed to be exposed to sunlight for too long and by midday he was burnt to a crisp.
The rest of the poor sod’s holiday consisted of applying bottle after bottle of aftersun lotion and staying in the apartment in order to soak in a cold bath. According to his mates, he could only come out from his fortress of solitude on the second last night, and by that stage his holiday was well and truly ruined. So if you’re Irish and pale skinned, make sure to ply yourself in sun tan lotion. At least his mates had a great time.
Skinny-dipping can be risky business
There’s a great story about two young couples from the UK who were in Portugal. They went for a midnight stroll along beachfront across the road from their hotel and decided they wanted to go for swim, but none of them had swimming togs with them and they weren’t going to run back to the room for them. So the only other alternative was to go skinny-dipping. There’s nothing wrong with that, right? Well, take this as a warning: if you go skinny dipping, make sure to remember where you left your clothes, because the couples in our story didn’t.
After some friendly frolicking and a nice brisk stroll in the midnight surf, the two couples emerged from the water only to realise that they had walked a little further down the beach than expected and they had no idea where they left their clothes. Were they stolen? Had the tied come in? They just didn’t know…
After searching for the guts of an hour, the two nude couples accepted the fact that they’d have to take the brisk bare walk back to the hotel. And there was no sneaking past reception for our two couples, as the hotel keys were lost along with the clothes. Embarrassing, but a great one to tell the grandkids.
Know your friends…
This one comes from another lads holiday that saw five lads from Aberdeen heading to Los, another of the Greek islands, for your typical lads getaway. The five lads were given a double room and a triple, which seemed grand. However, the lads in the triple were a tad jealous of the lads who had the extra spacious double room, so they decided to play a little prank.
On the last night the lads from the double room hit the town early in order to find some ladies and luckily for them, they did for the first time since their began their trip. So drinks were had, names were eventually exchanged and the two girls agreed to go back to the lad’s room for some ‘extra circular activities’. Sounds good for the lads so far, but things were about to head south… and not in the good way.
When the lads opened the door of their hotel room they realised everything was missing, and we mean EVERYTHING. No beds, no lockers, no suitcase, no clothes, no nothing… Unsurprisingly the lads broke into a panic, but it didn’t take long for them to discover that their mates in the triple room had moved absolutely everything out onto the balcony. Under normal circumstances they probably would have left everything out on the balcony, but they had company and they wanted to impress their new companions, so they got to work bringing the stuff back into the room. Sadly for the two lads, the ladies decided they had better things to do and left leaving them on their own to lament the fact that they were so close, but yet so far.
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