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Wrong Travel Companions is a verbatim account of a series of case histories of wrong company, at least for me.

The tobacconist, the cheapskate, the quarrelsome, the souvenir hunter, the selfie-taker, and the one who walks around with dirty underwear in his hand: here is a roundup of anecdotes taken from different trips. Above all, some of these people have not been good traveling companions, but that does not mean they are not good brothers or friends; they simply have not turned out to be suitable to travel with me.

Girlfriends, on the other hand, were not good at all ! But as said on other occasions, having a travel experience, in my opinion, is a very good test to assess the real understanding of a couple.

For many people the important thing is company, regardless of the destination. For me this is not so, in fact I prefer to go away alone. In this regard, I find this blogger’s analysis of traveling alone or with company interesting and comprehensive.

Please note the audio is in Italian.

Click below to listen to the episode.

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If you would like to listen to more episodes of the traveling oddities podcast, this is the page with all the ones published so far.

The articles with photos from which the podcast episode is taken: misguided fellow travelers in Europe

The featured photo depicts an artist who graced us with dancing and playing unusual instruments in Russia. Here I think he was playing with a small piece of iron. To better handle certain misguided fellow travelers, being in a group can help. This often also involves organized performances, which alone, I usually avoid.

Finally in the following links you can find the articles (with photos) already written in which I mention these episodes.

• Going to Russia with the wrong travel companion
• Wrong travel companions during tours in northern Italy
• Wrong company on the road
• Going to the Czech Republic and also to Bratislava but not only

Trips taken, travel stories divided by continent

Countries visited in my travel stories

Anecdotes, divided by type in travel narratives

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Fabio Viroli

Ho sempre avuto tante passioni, ma da sempre più o meno latenti, le principali sono viaggiare e scrivere. Tra le altre cose ho una laurea in psicologia; ho fatto per più di 30 anni l’allenatore di basket; leggo tanti libri; sono stato molto appassionato di sport e di musica rock; e faccio improvvisazione teatrale

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