{"id":28,"date":"2004-09-26T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/26\/mishaps\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T17:15:12","slug":"mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/26\/mishaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a42'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">You may think I&#x2019;ve<br \/>\nbeen having nothing but fun and this is just like the most perfect trip<br \/>\never or something.&nbsp; Well it has certainly been a journey I will<br \/>\nnever forget, and overall an overwhelmingly positive experience.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHowever, you should know there have been a few mishaps.&nbsp; I hope I<br \/>\nhaven&#8217;t been posting too many lists lately, because here&#8217;s another one<br \/>\nthat those of you who are into schadenfreude will particularly<br \/>\nenjoy.&nbsp; These are the major mishaps I have had on this trip, in<br \/>\norder of severity.<\/p>\n<p>1. Before I left, I lost my passport.&nbsp; Trip delayed by one day.&nbsp; Set me back some money.<\/p>\n<p>2. Had a lingering cold that finally ended up ruining about one day as I slept it off.&nbsp; I&#8217;m fine now though.<\/p>\n<p>3. After a trip to the Coliseum (where Sara got separated from us<br \/>\namidst a truly stunning crowd of tourists) and an hour and a half at<br \/>\nthe Roman Forum, four independent thinkers in a taxi together trying to<br \/>\nfigure out what to do next.&nbsp;&nbsp; You do the math. <\/p>\n<p>4. In Bavaria, I had too much beer too fast.&nbsp; Two liter-sized<br \/>\nmugs&#x2019; worth in about an hour.&nbsp; Again, you can do the math.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>5. Peter the Austrian, the talkative fellow that I mentioned before who<br \/>\nwas my bunkmate on the sleeper car from Vienna to Rome, snored like a<br \/>\nchainsaw and when he took his shoes off the odor filled the room.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd the top bunk was hot.&nbsp; Needless to say, I didn&#x2019;t sleep much. <\/p>\n<p>6. We hired a car to take us to Mogielnica (where our grandfather was<br \/>\nborn) on the way to Warsaw.&nbsp; The whole trip was supposed to take<br \/>\nfour hours or less, not including the time spent stopped in<br \/>\nMogielnica.&nbsp; By the time we got to Warsaw, we had already been in<br \/>\nthat uncomfortable van for 5 hours.&nbsp; So we rushed through our<br \/>\nvisit.&nbsp; This turned a what would have been sad experience into a<br \/>\nsomething of a bitter one, considering that I had dreamed of visiting<br \/>\nit since childhood.&nbsp; However, this ranks sixth on the list of<br \/>\nmishaps because we were able to go back the next day.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may think I&#x2019;ve been having nothing but fun and this is just like the most perfect trip ever or something.&nbsp; Well it has certainly been a journey I will never forget, and overall an overwhelmingly positive experience.&nbsp; However, you should know there have been a few mishaps.&nbsp; I hope I haven&#8217;t been posting too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackstriptoeuropestories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}