UK Woman Who Has Travelled To Over 60 Countries Reveals One Destination She Would Never Return Again
A 54-year-old woman from the UK who has been to over 60 countries has disclosed the one place she will never go to again. West Sussex native Geraldine Joaquim has witnessed some of the most breathtaking places on earth.
She started traveling while working in international marketing, and ever since switching to a job as a health coach and hypnotherapist, she has kept up her travels. According to the New York Post, Ms. Joaquim oversaw five foreign travels in the past year alone. She went to Andorra for a skiing vacation, south africa for a safari, italy for a villa vacation, egypt for a week, and Mons and Bruges, Belgium, for a christmas market visit.
"I enjoy traveling to new locations, seeing other cultures, and feeling as though I'm in a completely different environment than I am in my everyday life. As reported by the Post, she stated, "I believe that traveling to another country as a tourist is a privilege, so it's important to see the good and the not-so-good, and not expect a sanitized version."
Ms. Joaquim acknowledged that she feels privileged to have seen so many nations, but she also acknowledged that there is one place she has promised never to visit again: Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
Ms. Joaquim remarked, "It was probably one of my worst travel experiences," "I was traveling for work when my late-night flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, landed. Before continuing on to Isla Margarita, a little island off the coast, I had a car reserved to take me from the airport to a hotel in the city for the night," she remembered.
"Until I started waiting for the transfer, everything felt rather typical. I waited and waited. After spending hours there, I realized I was alone myself as the tiny airport began to empty. It was one in the morning, nobody else was around, and my phone was broken. I was so glad when a man arrived and said in shaky english that he was there to drive me to the hotel. However, my fear response skyrocketed when I stepped inside the car and saw another man seated in the front seat," she stated.
Her already upsetting vacation to the South American nation appeared to be about to become worse after she eventually made it to her hotel for the night and returned to the airport the next morning. When she arrived at the airport, she was pursuing a young man who had quickly stolen her belongings and run off. But later on, she learned that he was providing a paid "check in service," which she eventually learned she had to pay for.
According to Ms. Joaquim, she grudgingly gave up some cash and checked in for the subsequent trip. Fortunately, she noted, her return trip only required a brief stopover at the Caracas airport before taking a flight back to the UK.
She started traveling while working in international marketing, and ever since switching to a job as a health coach and hypnotherapist, she has kept up her travels. According to the New York Post, Ms. Joaquim oversaw five foreign travels in the past year alone. She went to Andorra for a skiing vacation, south africa for a safari, italy for a villa vacation, egypt for a week, and Mons and Bruges, Belgium, for a christmas market visit.
"I enjoy traveling to new locations, seeing other cultures, and feeling as though I'm in a completely different environment than I am in my everyday life. As reported by the Post, she stated, "I believe that traveling to another country as a tourist is a privilege, so it's important to see the good and the not-so-good, and not expect a sanitized version."
Ms. Joaquim acknowledged that she feels privileged to have seen so many nations, but she also acknowledged that there is one place she has promised never to visit again: Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
Ms. Joaquim remarked, "It was probably one of my worst travel experiences," "I was traveling for work when my late-night flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, landed. Before continuing on to Isla Margarita, a little island off the coast, I had a car reserved to take me from the airport to a hotel in the city for the night," she remembered.
"Until I started waiting for the transfer, everything felt rather typical. I waited and waited. After spending hours there, I realized I was alone myself as the tiny airport began to empty. It was one in the morning, nobody else was around, and my phone was broken. I was so glad when a man arrived and said in shaky english that he was there to drive me to the hotel. However, my fear response skyrocketed when I stepped inside the car and saw another man seated in the front seat," she stated.
Her already upsetting vacation to the South American nation appeared to be about to become worse after she eventually made it to her hotel for the night and returned to the airport the next morning. When she arrived at the airport, she was pursuing a young man who had quickly stolen her belongings and run off. But later on, she learned that he was providing a paid "check in service," which she eventually learned she had to pay for.
According to Ms. Joaquim, she grudgingly gave up some cash and checked in for the subsequent trip. Fortunately, she noted, her return trip only required a brief stopover at the Caracas airport before taking a flight back to the UK.
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