Fill in the Blanks Exercise
TRACK 1
Because I was travelling on my own, I decided to on
a coach tour. I thought it’d be fun and, you know, it would be meet
people and hang out with them in the evenings. Well, that was true – I
easily. But the tour itself … well, I’d like that again – not ever.
The problem is the people organising these tours every hour in the
timetable. It’s madness. Some days you have to be up, packed and by
about 7.30 am. And all the time they’d say, ‘Remember to do this, remember to
a time.’ I mean, I was on holiday – this in the army! And
they never allowed enough time to visit places. I remember visiting the
Museum in Bilbao – I was . I studied architecture in college
and wanted to stay all day at in the world. Instead, I could hear the
tour guide shouting behind me, saying they without me. If I didn’t
get back on the coach, I’d . Before going to the next place, I decided
to . A woman I became friends with on the tour . We went off
on our own to Pamplona for the and spent a week there. After that, we
Spain and then went to Portugal. It was much better to . I
didn’t like the way the trip started, but by the end, it was a and
great adventures.
Bernie: I worked in London over the winter months and
then I three other mates and we bought this van from a South African
couple and we to travel around Europe. We had a great time and there
were just a couple of times when we about what we’d do. The only
thing is finding your way round these European cities and , it’s...
Well, it’s a really. I mean, we had guidebooks and maps and things,
but often what you read about match reality. And there are just
cars and so many people. Driving in Paris was . It was the first
really big city we went to. On the second day there, we were driving down a
road and I noticed all these people . We were driving on the
! It was difficult to . We were only there for three days and
we didn’t really know where to begin. We went to the Louvre to see the Mona
Lisa. But the painting’s in this room and there were all these people there
with their phones taking a photo – . And, actually, I couldn’t
at all. Sometimes I’d see other tourists on some kind of tour and it
all looked for them, so I guess you get to see a bit more that way
and you don’t trying to work things out. Next time I go away I might
of some kind.
