Your Winning Travel Tales
To celebrate my new travel mystery After the Ferry, I asked you to share your own travel stories. Here are four of the best who’ve just won a free copy of my book.
Turkish Delight by JLV
“At 42, recently divorced, I met and fell in love with
a man from Turkey. He went back to Turkey without saying goodbye. Having never
left the USA, I bought a one way ticket to Istanbul, applied for a short-term
teaching job, said goodbye to my family and left. I did not tell my lover my
plans. After doing my teaching gig, which was a wonderful experience, I tracked
down my lover and, two weeks later, we were married. We have been married 10
years now. I was so scared not knowing what to expect in a foreign country and
not knowing my lover’s feelings. I have never regretted my decision.”
Spy Kids by Mike B.
Three friends and I were, unbeknownst to our parents,
traveling through Germany and Austria—in 1967, at the height of the Cold War.
We were 16 and 17 years old—riding rented Vespa scooters during the day and
camping in remote areas at night. On the 4th night, we were arrested (by
non-German-speaking military men; I couldn’t understand them). The charge was
‘suspicion of espionage.’ We found out soon that we had ventured into Communist
controlled Czechoslovakia at an unmarked rural border crossing. We were in the
custody of the Soviet KGB. . . “
A Near Miss by Nancy Marte
“I travelled to Jamaica by myself after my friend
cancelled at the last minute. Met a guy that worked at the resort I was staying
at and he invited me to a party with some of his friends. I had the funny weird
stomach butterfly feeling so I told him yes as I did not want him to be
suspicious of me, then changed rooms at the resort and stayed away from the
area he was working. This was in the 1980s. Never regretted this
decision.”
Spirited Away by Sammi K
“Went on a Ghost tour on the QEII Long Beach,
California with my daughter and granddaughter. When we got to the swimming pool
area, they turned off the lights and boy was it really dark. While we
listened to the story, something grabbed me but I couldn’t see what. When the
lights came back on I didn’t see anything. I left the area rather quickly and
won’t be going back.”
A big THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to send in their travel stories. I loved hearing your tales of shady travellers, feisty friends, unexpected soul mates and seriously close shaves. I’m sorry I can’t give you ALL a lovely prize, but I have chosen FOUR winners instead of three, as promised. So, it’s a big CONGRATULATIONS to the subscribers, above, whose stories all captured my imagination.
You have all just won yourselves a FREE copy of my latest eBook AFTER THE FERRY. I’ll be in touch soon with details on how to claim your prize.
Everyone else can grab their own copy by clicking here.
Happy reading, everybody!
xo Christina