When an awesome Paris trip ends up in a terrified experience on our way back Home!!!

It was around 5:00 in the evening when we were waiting for our ferry at Calais port.

I asked my husband, “When will we reach London?”

“Umm!! Around 9 pm”, he replied while scrolling facebook in his phone.

As per our plan, we were supposed to go by coach to London and then Coventry and then to Leamington (a beautiful town in England, where my home is) by cab.

After waiting for almost an hour finally our Ferry came.

“We will get late!!” my husband declared, at around 8 PM.

We then decided to change our plan and go directly to Leamington from London by train.

Well, then started a series of bad decisions, bad timings and of course, BAD LUCK!!

While checking the train schedule in my husband’s phone, suddenly, the internet stopped working and there were only a few pennies left as balance and my phone was already dead!!

Then we discovered that after having a luxurious and well spent holiday in Paris, we had hardly any money in our account.

At around 10:30 PM we reached London and boarded a tube train from a nearby station to London Marylebone.

Those 40 minutes in the train were like a serious horror movie!!

There were hardly 4-5 people in that train, the lights were blinking continuously, the train was wobbling the whole way, and there was continuous spark of train scrapping on the track with a very bad sharp sound!!!

I prayed to God for our safety and wished those 40 minutes to pass asap.

When we reached London Marylebone, we found out that the last train had already left and the next train was in the morning!! So we decided to stay in hotel.

But, guess again, all the nearby hotels were either full or were hell costly!!

Standing somewhere in the middle, we were thinking of what to do next, 3 drunken men came and started asking “Do you have change? Do you have change?”

While asking, one of those almost fell on me!!

Though London is safe, but in that moment when everything was going wrong, we didn’t trust anyone.

My husband held my hand and dragged me out of them and we were back to the station.

Seeing both of us tensed, the only officer at the station (and angel for us) came and helped to book a cab at a very cheap price (almost half).

Well, as we didn’t have money to pay for the cab, we called our friend at around 2PM if he could help us. The moment he approved, we got in the cab and at around 4 in the morning we reached home safely and our friend paid for the cab (a friend in need is a friend indeed!!).

Lesson Learnt!! Always have extra money in your pocket, balance in your phone, and most important, always have a very good friend!!