Worst place you've slept.

In a field, because the derelict house had too much broken glass on the floor.

On a pile of gravel and it wasn't that bad all things considered.

Heathrow - noisy cleaners , Gatwick - seats have dividers , Stanstead - too much competition for floor space.

The old Ferry terminal in Holyhead , had to tape up broken windows to keep the wind out.

The usual camping holiday in Ireland, by day three everything is damp or sodden. And then when you wake up the bottom of the tent is floating like a water bed.


Read "The Worst Journey In The World" sometime. It's just miserable. Man-hauling overweight sledges in Antarctica. And when the going gets though you have to split the load and double back for the other half, three miles to move one mile. And we now know that they didn't have nearly enough calories so you are starving too*. And without vitamin C your body is slowly breaking down from scurvy. When it's sunny the ice melts a little and you sweat too so everything gets wet. When you sleep at night it's in an icy sleeping bag, then it gets wet as you warm it.

just miserable.

Now do it during the Antarctic winter. No daylight. None.

It's -60 and then your tent blows away :eek:


It's great reading on a winters night when you can hear the wind and rain outside and are safely tucked up in a warm bed.



* "S. privately forced upon me his one breakfast biscuit, and would have given me another tonight had I allowed him. I do not suppose that anyone else in the world can thoroughly realise how much generosity and sympathy was shown by this; I DO, and BY GOD I shall never forget. Thousands of pounds would not have bought that one biscuit."
- Frank Wild referring to Shackleton 1909