Suppose...

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Antarctica Argentinië Paaseiland Chili Trinidad & Tobago Guatemala Verenigde Staten Hawaii Micronesië Japan Noord-Korea China Namibië

Suppose...

On our tour we experienced a lot of weird things. Here you find some stories that astonished us.

Antarctica

Suppose...

... that by the shaking and rolling of the boat you literally drop out of bed on a regular based.

... that by the shaking and rolling of the boat hundreds of plates and cups go to pieces.

... that you walk in the snow and penguins come and watch to check what kind of a weird animal you are.

... that you are in a zodiac and all of a sudden a whale shows up.

... that you have to get dressed in a hurry: thermal underwear, trousers, one more trousers, rain pants, a t-shirt, a sweater, a parka (coat), three pairs of woolen socks, boots, gloves, two hats and a life vest.

... that it is mouse-still and all of a sudden an iceberg of tens of meters cracks down in the sea.

Chile and Easter Island

Suppose...

... that you are in a restaurant having the following conversation:
Cindy: Can I have a tortilla with cheese?
Waiter: We have no cheese, but we do have chicken.
Cindy: I do not eat chicken.
Harm: But the only vegitarian dih you have is with cheese?
Waiter: That's right.
Harm: So you also do not have a sandwich with cheese.
Waiter: Would you like to have a cheese sandwich?
Cindy: You don't have cheese.
Waiter: So one cheese sandwich?
Cindy: One cheese sandwich...sigh.
Waiter: Ok, coming up!

... that you are asked to help and save a horse out of the crater of a vulcano.

... that after having had a quad ride all day, you are that dirty that people at the fuel station offer you to clean you using there fire hose.

Argentina

Suppose...

... that you are have a horse ride, where one horse is farting all day, one horse is constantly laying down because het is to lazy to walk and the third horse prefers walking in the shrubs.

... that you booked a hotel and on arrival you find out that the hotel no longer exists.

... that you are having a flight together with cuffed criminal who is evicted from the country.

... they ask you every now and then "hoe Maxima is doing"?!

Trinidad & Tobago

Suppose...

... that you are in a public bus and the driver is constantly called on his cell phone "to hurry up with his bus".

... that on average you have to wait for 45 minutes in a FAST-food store.

... that you just arrived in the ferry, having a cup of coffee and it is evacuated because of a bomb alarm, "leave your coffee!"

... and that you -one back on the ferry- are having a fresh cup of coffee and that the ferry is evacuated again!

... that you work for the gouvernment and you have to work for 45 minutes a day, which is "a very hard job".

Guatemala

Suppose...

... that you exchange money at an official bank and you almost are deceived. Once you tell them you got too less, the remaining money is carelessly shifted to you.

... that you are in a small restaurant where right in front of you they are catching a tarantula (spider).

... that you walk in the jungle and monkeys are swinging above you and throwing sticks at you.

... that at customs you have to hand over you terrorist weapons like your washing line, your tape and your one-inch sewing scissors.

... that you are in an airplane where everybody wears new shoes (bought in the USA).

... that you have to wait for half an hour for your food in a restaurant, after which they come and tell you that they ran out of gas.

USA

Suppose...

... that you are in a hotel in a neighbourhood that is full of people who are having psychriatic problems.

... that you have to stay in a hotl that is used as a whorehouse and a place to deal drugs.

... that in the morning you meet at "the slot machine of Fred".

... that it takes you three hours to get to the studio, which is around the corner at your hotel.

... that you go to a show at Broadway a girls are swimming half a meter above you in a huge glass water-basin.

... that you are you to look for clothes in XXXXXL sizes (Japan and China) and that all of a sudden you seem to have size XS.

Yap

Suppose...

... that you go for a dive and almost crash into a four meter wide manta ray.

... that you go snorkling and at once see a shark circling around you.

... that you are in a country where everybody is more or less stoned all day.

... that you put up your thumb and you have a ride within three seconds.

... that three times in a row you make an appointment with a taxi driver and they never show up.

... that like to local people you speak English, but still communicating is very very hard.

Japan

Suppose...

... that because of the airconditioning you put on your jacket when you enter a building.

... that you are in a country where everybody keeps walking straight ahead without keeping an eye on the rest of the pedestrians.

... that you enter a store and everybody welcomes you in choir.

... that you are not allowed to sneeze of cough in public.

... that you are having a nice dinner and everybody around you starts to slurp as loud as possible (to be polite).

... that you go to the beach and everybody is swimming in long trousers and long shirts.

... that they wake you at 5 AM to meditate.

North Korea

Suppose...

... that you go and find a drink in the train and next you cannot go back because the sleeping conductor has the keys.

... that they tell you have all freedom to walk around, but you are but on a small island.

... that you are in the train and all your pictures are checked.

... that you are in a small bus with a powerful army officer who starts to sing his favorite song.

... that you visit a class in a primary school, but the school was finished hours ago.

... that you visit a library and "coincidently" run into the same woman on every floor.

China

Suppose...

... that after a small piece of "spicy food" you cannot eat one more bite.

... that you visit a temple and smell of incense for a week.

... that you try and arrange a taxi but the driver refuses to take you for no reason.

... that you want to send a package to the Netherlands and that lots of things have to be taken out because "they contain batteries" which they don't.

... that you walk on a market where you can eat living scorpions on a stick.

... that you are in China and that you cannot find a Chinese restaurant.

Namibia

Suppose...

... that you cannot continue driving because an elephant is standing on the (public) road.

... that you want to take a hitchhiker and before you know you car smells like and is full of pieces of corn.

... that you pick up a guide who subsequently takes her child, her sister and her cousin... and next she guides you to a guide who DOES know where to go.

... that you are looking for a Himba tribe, that you have to leave behind your car because you do not want to cross another river and that it is three more hours of hiking through the dessert before you arrive at the tribe.

... that you are camping in a site that is so dark you you can even see the milky way.

... that you are alone on a camping site that can host at least 300 tents.