{"id":9818,"date":"2015-08-15T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2015-08-15T02:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:48:56","slug":"8-hour-train-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/8-hour-train-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"#Moments: 8-Hour Train Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This picture I took while I was on the train to Sapa<\/strong> from Hanoi.<\/strong> The 8-hour overnight train wasn’t the most comfortable ride – in fact it was more like sleeping on a roller coaster plus the deafening noise and all – but it was much more comfortable than probably lolling in a chair for that long. I was supposed to be in another room, but somebody who introduced herself as a travel agent came up to me and told me that I was given the wrong ticket and that I had to move to another room. I told her that the hotel from which I bought my ticket never informed me of that – and that she shouldn’t just come to me and ask me to move to another room when I wasn’t even sure who exactly she was. I mean, she could be anybody. She was all apologetic and yet I didn’t just swap my ticket without spraying my venomous words right to her face. I mean, I had every right to be pissed off. She was doing it for the convenience of her group of tourists. That small Hyper Gear bag had contained among others – an MP3 player and my \u00a0brand new phone charger. In the rush of the hour upon arriving, I absent-mindedly left it behind. Karma? May be. May be God wanted to tell me that I should always be nice to people. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This picture I took while I was on the train to Sapa from Hanoi. The 8-hour overnight train wasn’t the most comfortable ride – in fact it was more like sleeping on a roller coaster plus the deafening noise and all – but it was much more comfortable than probably lolling in a chair for that long. I was supposed to be in another room, but somebody who introduced herself as a travel agent came up to me and told…<\/p>\n

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