Traveling overseas and experiencing a different part of the world, various cultures, and meeting new people is the dream. As soon as you step foot into another country, the realization that possibilities are endless becomes attainable and you can’t wait to check everything off your bucket list.
Where to eat? What sights are you going to see? What tour do you want to get in line for? Which museums do you want to spend your whole day in? Which bars and clubs will have the best nightlife? There are so many questions and you’ll be the lucky one to answer all of them.
Overseas trips offer a plethora of opportunities with a sprinkling of memories strewn around. The language barriers, different walks of life you encounter, and plain miscommunication surely guarantees some hilariously memorable stories to recall when you get back home.
These 25 travelers share their strange encounters overseas:
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I had just met this way-too-hot-for-me Italian girl on my first night in Europe. She brought me back to her place and we started banging in what had to be the tiniest room ever. She barely spoke English, and I spoke absolutely no Italian, so communication during sex was mostly limited to pointing. At one point, I pulled out to change positions. She then got on all fours and threw me the sexiest look over her shoulder. She said in a seductive, accented voice, “…Do you want to… do the little sheep?” Silence on my end. I didn’t know what to do. Little sheep? What the f*ck does this girl want me to do? That was the day I found out that doggy style translates to doing the little sheep in Italian.
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If you speak proper Canadian French, you’ll sound like an old geezer to a young French woman in France. Our language apparently never adopted the newer terms, and it’s hard to hit on them when they keep trying to figure out if you’re a time traveler from the 20’s.
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I was on a train in India in the unreserved carriage, the one that’s usually features in those pictures you see of hundreds of people clinging on to an Indian train. It’s fairly unusual for westerners to travel in this part of the train, so I was attracting quite a lot of attention. Everyone who got on was speaking to me. It was quite a pleasant way to pass the time. Then one guy wanted to show me how well he could read English, he proceeded to read my book to me for about 3 hours in very heavily accented broken English. Me being British found it impossible to interrupt him and ask for my book back. Turned into a very long journey.
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I lived in Taipei for around 6 months with my brother and his new wife. My brother and I are American and his new bride was Chinese, and she took it upon herself to teach me mandarin while I was there so that I could get around easier and take care of myself a bit. I was later informed that she was teaching me feminine speech patterns that are added on to be “cute”, so while I was speaking to people there were many who assumed I was gay.
Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.
