44 ---- Returning to the hotel: Melanie's story

Melanie writes:

'There is one moment on our trip that I prefer to forget (apart from the other moment when I lost my Eurostar ticket!): Jane and Erin had decided to go back to the hotel by tube and asked me to take everybody else back on the bus. We had a new bus-driver instead of our usual driver, John. I was chatting happily to a student and did not notice that we had, in fact, missed our turning and were driving through dark, unfamiliar territory. Fortunately, UIAD students are very observant individuals. They noticed. They told me. For one tiny, tiny moment I imagined the newspaper headlines: FRENCH STUDENTS KIDNAPPED BY CRAZY BUS-DRIVER and almost panicked. But, of course, the poor man had simply not seen the turning. He eventually found the road we wanted and returned us to the hotel, safe and sound. He felt rather foolish about it. So did I.'

Melanie