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Been caught in a chinese customs raid in hong kong ( which i must confess was more exhilirating that downright terrible)
Had a flight in dubai cancelled, 18 hours in the airport with no hotel given. It's times like that when you learn where the beds > power > free food & internet are.
I would have to say the the most irritating thing, and it's far from catastrophic, but even so- left internext MI, flew to Toronto.
Seems Canadian ATMs have more strict creditcard rules - and as my card expired in the current month, nowhere would accept it, despite the fact I had used it one hour prior in the USA.
So suddenly I'm in a new country, at the airport, with access to no money at all. I eventually managed to cobble together $5US to get it exchanged to get the subway + streetcar, and walked for about an hour to find the place I was staying..
It so turns out that when, in the months prior to my departure, I had asked for the bank to arrange the expedited postage of my card when it expired, they ignored me, but when the time came, cancelled the card. Many, many calls later, I found some dozey bitch at the bank had cancelled and reactived and cancelled my card, and the card to arrive after that, and the card to arrive after that. I didn't get a working card until I was home for 4 months.
All I can say is - my epassporte card saved me - it's scary to go from having money -> nothing in an instant.
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