One Apple A Day #31
Tell us about a disastrous camping trip. Use either/or and neither/nor to establish how much your characters would rather be anywhere but the African savanna/Arctic tundra/Griswold family camping trip.
There was neither a tree nor a rock. Literally nothing capable of creating even the smallest shadow. We were staring at the camping without any ideas of what to do. None of us was really a camping person but when you’re a student without money there aren’t many options. Either you go for something very cheap or you just give up with the idea of holidays at all. That year we opted for the first option. One week of camping in Croatia. On the Krk island to be precise. In the middle of the nineties, the islands in Croatia had just started to discover the value of tourism. The sea, nature, the food, everything was beautiful. It was also rough but we weren’t aware of that part. Everyone told us it was cheap and beautiful. We didn’t need anything else.
And there we were. 3 pm on a hot and sunny day in July. No clouds in the sky. Inside the only camping with vacancies, looking for the best spot to place our tents. And no shadows.
I remembered that for a long minute I thought that spending the holidays home isn’t so bad, after all. But it was just a minute. We were young, we wanted to go wild and that was our opportunity. Our only opportunity considering that all the other camping were full. So, either we plant our tent under the sun or we drive back for hours to go somewhere else in a country we don’t know at all.
We placed the tents. That part was easy. A part from the hard terrain that made planting the pegs quite complicated. But we managed to have our tents ready for the night. We thought that was the beginning of a fantastic adventure.
As soon as we left our tent to start our holidays the real problems started:
we walked for hours without finding a decent spot to enjoy the sea
the bathrooms in the camping hadn’t been cleaned since the forties.
all restaurants were expensive, we ended up eating a fake pizza. Also expensive.
we almost had a fight with some locals
someone broke the boat of a group of friends that were planning to spend some time sailing along the costs
in the camping, there was a night long race party
we woke up in the morning almost melting inside our tents
The morning after, in front of a poor breakfast, we were facing a choice. Either leaving for the unknown or staying, trying to make it works somehow.
We decided to go for the unknown.