Narrative Essay Sample About Traveling

My First Trip Abroad

It is hard for me to remember much about my first trip abroad (to Egypt, namely) because it was
about fifteen years ago and I was almost a child at that time, so a lot of memories have been lost
somewhere on the way.

But the only thing I remember about that trip is that everything from the very beginning went wrong –
not terribly wrong; it was this mildly frustrating “wrong” that doesn’t actually cause any harm or
problems, but makes the whole experience of something a bit specific – not the way you would like it
to be.

To begin with, the flight was first delayed and then canceled due to sudden and terrible deterioration
of the weather. Some altercations with the travel agency followed, apologies received, but we didn’t
manage to fly anywhere that day.

When the time finally came, we, surprisingly got to our destination without any problems. They
awaited us in Egypt. What do people usually go to Egypt for? To look at the Pyramids, of course,
and that was the idea of our group, but, due to some problems, we didn’t manage to get to the
necessary excursion. The weather for the entirety of our stay there was rather cloudy (which is
unusual for Egypt), so the usual option of sunbathing was also out of the question for some time.
And, to crown it all, at the day of our departure a terrible, never-ending rain started, which, according
to the owner of our hotel, happened for the first time in the last 17 years.