After many phone calls, we finally found the first tourist. She loudly yelled “hello good morning” in a German accent as she entered the vehicle and is putting the “germ” into “German” by sneezing all over the place, so I think we’ll get along great! /s

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Found two more tourists and reached the main vehicle. Sadly no seatbelt on my chair, but others have seatbelts and don’t use them. Life’s unfair, I guess, and so might death be, the way things are going.

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Okay so it seems that the reason that we left 15 minutes late is that the German tourist thought she was going on a tour with two friends, but each of them managed to book the same tour at a different time, which was why they weren’t there at the pickup point.

Tony the Tour Guide has been making phone calls for the last 20 minutes, and it looks like we’ll reunite the German tourist with her friend once we get to the first stop.

Hopefully that means I get to take her seat and seatbelt 🥳

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Update: I’m in her seat!

Not enjoying this tour as much as the last one. While Handsome Hau seemed to have been genetically engineered to be the most energetic and cheerful tour guide, Tony the Tour Guide is mostly focused on making sure that everybody understands what he says. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it makes him speak very slowly and it makes him repeat everything seemingly endlessly, and my brain needs a bit more stimulation than that.

We ended up swapping the German tourist for another tourist, a guy this time, and immediately lost him. That cut our sightseeing cut short again, which annoyed me.

Thankfully some of the others in our small group are nice and interesting people, so I’m at least having a few good chats. And I still got to see My Son, or what’s left of it after the Americans bombed it.

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lol the other tourists just told me to stop asking questions 🥲

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@smashtie the tour guide keeps not answering my questions. Not clear to me if he doesn’t understand my questions or doesn’t know the answers, but he basically keeps answering different questions and I keep rephrasing my questions. The Australian tourists think that the guide doesn’t understand my questions and also seem to think that I don’t understand that the guide doesn’t understand my questions. Their way of coping with the situation is to loudly tell me that the guide doesn’t understand my questions and then loudly repeat my questions to the guide in a manner that I find quite offensive.

Anyway the guy told me “don’t you dare. We cannot afford it” and poked me in the ribs with his elbow.