You Know You're Staying In A Backpackers When...

1. You need a key to go to the toilet at night – to get into the toilets! 2. You enter your room and it smells like dead dog (from the other guests backpacks!) 3. You need to make up your own bed before you can sleep in it 4. Your clothes smell of B.O. and it’s not your own 5. You are awakened ridiculously early in the morning by a bunch of Japanese faffing about rustling plastic bags 6. You are sleeping in a room with a heap of strangers and none of them speak English 7. You take a shower and the handle falls off the tap 8. You don’t get any sleep because there’s always someone with a terrible snore 9. You’re awakened in the wee small hours of the morning by a bunch of drunken hoodlums returning to the dorm – to discover the most unco-ordinated of them is sleeping in the bunk above you 10. You go to the kitchen to cook your dinner and can’t find any clean plates or utensils because the hostel is full of mostly boys who clearly don’t know how to clean up after themselves, unfortunately are not eye candy at all (alas) and who have very a dubious sense of hygiene! Yes people, I have experienced each and every one of these things on this trip!