Hi guys!
I want to make a video about travel fails: some of the worst moments of our travels in 2017.
These are all things that were happening behind the scenes
that I may have mentioned on Instagram or Insta Stories
but I’ve never sat down and just made a whole video telling you some of the biggest fails.
I mean there were lots of little moments of things going wrong, obviously,
but these were some of the things that - looking back - were kind of awful when they happened
and now just make me laugh.
I mean some of them…they were so ridiculous they even just made me laugh at the time.
So without further ado I want to start by telling you the time that our apartment flooded in Berlin.
We had been up late the night before ’til around four in the morning working on the next day’s video,
which isn’t that uncommon, went to bed, and I woke up the next morning at, I think, 8:58.
I remember that in my mind and I got up to go towards the bathroom
and the apartment was very small.
There was, like, the bedroom and then the middle room which was kitchen slash living room - everything -
and a bathroom.
And so I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination
but I’m walking along and I feel that my feet are wet
and then I realize that it’s raining.
And I had this very brief moment of thinking, like, am I dreaming?
Am I still asleep?
Like what’s going on?
Then I realize I am very much awake and it is very much raining inside our apartment.
Now I’ve been in floods before but I’ve never experienced,
you know, what feels like rain pouring down from the ceiling.
It was coming through all of the light sockets.
It was running down the walls, pooling on the floor.
Everything that was on the floor or touching the walls was completely soaked.
I looked into the bathroom and it was the same thing happening there.
Everything was just wet and
the worst part about it was that it just kept coming - gushing from the ceiling -
and then I heard someone out in the hallway who was, like, pounding on the door, ringing the doorbell,
and I couldn’t open the door.
I’m pulling on it, I cannot open the door.
We realize that what’s happened is that because the water has been pouring on this wood door frame
the wood has warped.
So this door actually will not physically come open anymore.
So he starts to bust down the door.
I feel him punching it, kicking it, like, rattling it like this
and he kicks the door and part of the door frame flies off in my face
and I was, like, hold up!
Let me just back out of the way before you bust the door down anymore -
the door is flying into my face.
So I backed up and he literally kicked the door in.
‘Just a minute - go back!’ -‘It’s a little dangerous!’
‘Yes - go back!’ -‘Ok.’
‘Holy shit.’
I’m just glad that we could get out of the apartment because with water coming from above
and pooling below it was making me feel a little bit trapped
that the only way in and out of the apartment was completely stuck
and that he didn’t break down more of the door in my face
and that only part of the door frame flew off and didn’t cause any damage.
Imagine if it’d gone in my eye or something?
Awful.
And that actually, funnily enough, was not the only apartment that we stayed in this year that flooded.
We actually had a flooded apartment in Cartagena back in Colombia
and that was also a situation where I was in bed.
I don’t know why this happens…maybe it’s, like, karma for not being a morning person or something -
the universe is trying to tell me something.
But anyways lying in bed and I wake up and there’s water dripping onto my forehead
and I looked up and realize that it was, again, raining inside.
Although I can’t use the term ‘raining’ - it was, like, dripping from the ceiling.
I was, like, oh my god, I wonder what’s happened.
There had been, like, a big rain storm the night before that we noticed
so there was a lot of water outside the apartment
and it was happening on Marc’s side of the bed too.
My pillow was all wet.
When I swung my legs over the side of the bed to stand up it was pooled on the floor beside the bed
and, unfortunately, there was no bedside table in that room
and so I had all of my things on the floor beside the bed.
Thank god I didn’t have my phone on the floor because I was charging it in another room
but I did have my - I don’t know - my Kobo e-reader
and some other things on the floor and they were ruined.
Well, at least the case was.
I managed to save the e-reader.
I don’t know how but thankfully it was ok by some miracle.
Another thing that happened in Cartagena was… I don’t know if you guys remember the video called…
I think it was called ‘Sailing To A Secret Beach’
where we got to go out on a sailboat and it was amazing and,
as you can imagine, we really wanted to fly the drone because it was gorgeous.
We had perfect, perfect weather that day.
We were like, oh my god, we’ve got to get the drone up in the air and just capture all of this from above.
It’s going to look amazing.
But ok…learned some things that day.
We tried to fly the drone up off of the deck of the sailboat
and there was no flat space on the boat because the boat sort of goes down like this
and so the surface that we were trying to launch it from was just a little bit…I don’t know.
It wasn’t perfectly straight but I didn’t think it’d be that big a deal.
So anyway - so I placed it down and
I was sort of watching, Marc was flying it,
and he went to go up and instead of going up, it went to the side
and I went into, like, Jason Bourne mode and just lunged forward after the drone
because I could see it going towards the ocean.
Salt water - no bueno!
So I lunged forward, grabbed it while the propellers were still going,
and thank god for the mercy of the universe there was like a little lip
that went all around the deck of the sailboat.
So by the grace of that little lip, and me lunging forward in time to get it,
we managed to save the drone from flying into the ocean.
So, you know, you never want to see your drone go sideways.
Not unless you’re trying to get it to go sideways.
So, yeah, we won’t be doing that again.
We did fly it from other places so you can enjoy that drone footage like we did
but I’m never going to launch it off of anything but a flat surface
and I think I will be very hesitant to launch it off of a boat.
There was actually another thing that happened in Cartagena.
As I’m realizing it, there’s actually one, two, three…three things
that went wrong in beautiful Cartagena of all places.
We went to a restaurant - we were having like a date night.
The video was called, I think, ‘A Date Night In Cartagena’
when Marc and I just wanted to kind of treat ourselves and go to a nice restaurant and enjoy the city
and it ended in a quite memorable way but for the wrong reasons
because we were sitting at a table - it was a table for two - on the wall
and there was a little ledge where there was a window that looked out onto the street, which was very nice,
and the window ledge had a place where you could put things.
So I think I put my purse there, Marc put his phone - his iPhone - on the ledge
and, you know, we’re eating dinner and vlogging it, having a really fun time,
and at the end of the night when we went to leave Marc said,
‘Uh I can’t find my phone. Do you have it?’
‘Cause often I’ll, you know, put it in my purse or carry it for him or something
and I was like, ‘No, I don’t have it.
Did you check your pockets or… you know, it was on that ledge.
I don’t know what happened to it.’
And so we’re looking all around, no idea what happened to it,
and Marc realizes that his chair is feeling a little bit uneven.
So he kind of like rocks back and forth.
You know when your table leg needs like a little matchbook underneath it or something?
Same kind of idea.
So he looks down.
Somehow his phone is underneath the leg of his chair, screen up, and the screen is completely smashed.
So somehow during our wonderful romantic date night in Cartagena
Marc has been sitting on the screen of his iPhone.
And we had no idea.
It’s just ridiculous like to this day neither of us has any idea what happened.
There’s something even more tragic knowing that your body weight
was the cause of smashing the screen of your iPhone.
So anyway - I mean people smash phones all the time.
That was three things that happened in Cartagena
and then there was actually a fourth thing that happened in Colombia.
This was in a taxi on the way from Medellin to Guatapé.
If you’ve seen the Guatapé videos you know it was that gorgeous place with the monolith
surrounded by lakes and the rock you can climb up
and the the town has all of those murals that we animated in that video
to kind of make them come to life.
So Guatapé was amazing but on the drive from Medellin
our taxi was actually struck from behind by a motorbike that then swerved and crashed directly into a bus
and it was really traumatic to see and I think it stuck with me
because Marc and I drove a scooter for many years and we were actually in an accident
so I can relate to it and it was so scary
to first of all be hit from behind because we didn’t know what happened
and then to see like a millisecond later this guy at full speed just crash directly into a bus.
He was going so fast and the bus was parked that he went full into it, made an indent,
and his head just popped right off of the bus and the way his head snapped I will never forget.
It was very scary and thankfully, you know, we were ok, he was ok,
the people in the bus were ok but it was a scary moment
and then when we got to Guatapé and we pulled up outside our hostel
we got out and saw the scrape where he had hit the back of our car
before kind of bouncing off and crashing into the bus.
So that was a story that was really scary at the time and,
looking back, I’m just so glad that everyone involved was ok.
On a much lighter, tastier note how about a story about hot dogs?
If you saw our vlog about going from Toronto to Paris
then you know that we were on a Wow Air flight that stopped in Iceland
and, as you may have heard me mention before, Marc and I actually met in Iceland,
our families are Icelandic, and so it’s a really special place for us
and Icelandic hot dogs - I know I’m biased - but they are the best in the world
and so we wanted to take the little stopover as an opportunity to get hot dogs
and kokomjólk, which is Icelandic chocolate milk, and then Skyr which is like yogurt.
Oh and a candy bar because they make delicious chocolate and liquorice.
So the place that we were going to go was closed because it was the middle of the night
and we heard at the other end of the airport at a different part of the terminal
there was a place where you could get them.
So we ran, we got the hot dogs, we vlogged it all,
and then it put us way behind and we actually almost missed our flight to Paris.
So I guess now I can truthfully tell people I am the type of person who will almost miss a flight
because of devotion to hot dogs.
So we…it all worked out in the end.
We got the hot dogs, we got to Paris but we really… I think we were the last people on the flight
and, you know, it was flashing ‘Final Boarding’ and,
you know, it was one of those you get on the plane and they seal and then they leave immediately.
So we were just lucky in that case.
The last fail of 2017 that I want to talk about is a story that is still ongoing
and that is that in Bratislava, Slovakia our drone crashed
and there’s a lot of detail to this story.
I could probably make a whole video telling you this story so
if you would like me to do that please leave a comment down below.
But, in short, it basically involves the drone crashing on the top of a building,
a naked boy,
and me climbing to the roof in the snow.
So if you want some more detail about that then let me know
but we have no drone right now and hopefully will soon.
So please cross your fingers and toes if you love the drone as much as I do.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this video.
Let me know if you enjoy story time like this,
if you want to hear more about fails like this as they’re happening
instead of in a round up like this at the end of the year
because god knows I think it’s funny.
Maybe not at the time but
I would love to hear what your favourite fail or worst moment was that I told you about
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