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Thomas Cook and ABTA did some research and in their findings were some ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers. Here’s the top 20:

A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate”.

A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she’d been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the “do not disturb” sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

“The beach was too sandy.”

A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

“Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”

“We bought ‘Ray-Ban’ sunglasses for five euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.”

“No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”

“It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”

“My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”

“I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.”

“The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers – will we be OK staying here?”

“There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners.”

“We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white.”

“We had to queue outside with no air conditioning.”

“It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”

“I was bitten by a mosquito – no-one said they could bite.”

“I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”

“It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ’siesta’ time – this should be banned.”

“On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”

“We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.”

How bizarre! There’s a restaurant in Latvia that gives hospital food new meaning. This restaurant is owned by Latvian doctors who thought it would be “cool” to sell “body parts” that you eat using surgical utensils. Ok so it’s not real body parts but come on, who wants to eat food that looks like body parts?… really!

“Excuse me nurse, I’ll have the eyeball soup with fingers and blood dip as a starter and for mains I’ll have the thigh drizzled with bile and for dessert I’ll have your breast, thanks”.

Talking about breasts, check out this strange boob claw machine in Japan…

Anyway, here’s a video about that weird Latvian restaurant…

What kinda people eat at a place like that anyway… I dunno maybe the food is really good… I’m sure Hannibal Lecter would love it. OK, so maybe I’m curious and would probably try it at least once if I’m ever in Latvia.

Ok ok… So I’ve been a bad blogger. I know I should be blogging everyday and I don’t have a valid excuse for my lack of enthusiasm. I’ll try to be a better blogger… but I’m not gonna promise anything…

The 2009 Argus Cycle tour, the biggest timed cycling event in the world, has come and gone…with the wind *hehe* being the most HECTIC its ever been. Almost a week later and everyone who rode And those who chickened out are still talking about how windy it was. And it was extremely windy so I don’t blame people for bailing at the start, especially the people who got blown over before the start line, that’s enough to discourage even the most hardcore cyclist.

I’m glad I rode though because it’s definitely the most memorable cycle tour I’ve ever done! Not only was it the windiest but it was also the year that Jan Ullrich started in the same group as me… and I beat him… ok so I beat him last year too but he wasn’t in my start group last year so that doesn’t count… or does it? and the fact that he rode for charity and probably took it easy to enjoy the ride definitely doesn’t count… haha

Right so the Argus cycle tour is done but the training will hopefully continue… I have the habit of parking the bike for a few months after an event but this year will be different! This year I plan on riding at least twice a week… well that’s the plan… but I’m sure good company and coffee and ice cream pit stops will continue to motivate me…