Welcome to the 19th collection of stories of Kindness on the Road!
I’m back in the Philippines at the moment due to a family situation. Once it’s resolved, I plan to be back in South America to continue my 2-year backpacking trip.
In the past 6 months of my travel in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and the United States, I’ve met so many people — both locals and travelers alike — who just reinforced my belief about the kindness of people. I’m very happy therefore to continue this series. If you have been helped by someone during your travels, feel free to send the story to me!
This month, our contributor is DJ Yabis, who blogs at Dream Euro Trip. DJ lives a charmed life in Germany, blogging about his stylish adventures in Europe and around the world. Follow his colorful and fabulous life on Instagram and Facebook.
It was a Friday night in Tel Aviv and I was running late for my friend’s house party. The plan was to have some drinks at his house first and then we’ll all go out together around midnight.
Typical me, I was out of the door after midnight but I messaged my friend that I was on my way and that they should wait for me. I wasn’t really sure if he read it though.
I didn’t have internet connection nor balance on my phone so there was no way I could contact him once I was out of the door. I only had his address and a bottle of red wine I brought from Croatia.
I decided to take a taxi so I could get there faster. The taxi dropped me at the right street address but then I realized I didn’t really know his door number nor what to press at the gate.
I was screwed. It was already half past midnight and there weren’t really that many people around until I saw two guys walk by.
I shouted “Hey!” to get their attention and ran over to them. I told them my dilemma and asked if I can use their phone or 3G personal hotspot so I could contact my friend.
They didn’t hesitate and they even gave me one of their phones. I messaged my friend. As I was waiting, I got to talk with them a bit. Their names were David and Alex. Eventually, my friend replied and said they already left and they were somewhere else in Florentine area and that I needed to go there instead.
Well I was holding a bottle of wine and I didn’t really know what to do with it. I didn’t really want to bring it to the club where my friends were because I couldn’t.
“Well, do you guys wanna have this bottle of red wine as my thank you? I can’t really bring it,” I told the two.
“Why don’t you come over our house and we can drink it. Our apartment is just around the corner,” one of them said.
“Sure!”
And so I ended up going to the apartment of these two guys and we drank the wine. I learned that they were DJs and that they just came back from Berlin. We chatted about Berlin and Tel Aviv and parties. I marvelled at their huge collection of vinyl records.
I was so happy that they were so helpful and that they even invited me to their apartment.
After we finished drinking the bottle, I thanked them and said I need to get going. They joined me and walked me out to the street and found a taxi for me to get me to Florentine.
And now I am friends with them and I might see them in Berlin next month!
Do you have any stories of kindness on the road? Send them to me and I’ll include them in a future post!
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Thanks for featuring my story!
You’re right!! I love to travel… However I can’t do it all the time. I’m a bussines woman, I’m an interior designer, I transform regular rooms like bathrooms or bedrooms into places where you can relax, almost like a spa, I’m dedicated, responsable and I have to admit workholic too BUT I love to take vacations, and when I say vacations I really mean it. I went to Qatar for my vacations 2 years ago, it was new year’s eve, I was my friedn Lucia from Argentina, she is an amazing girl!! we were heading to a party that a friend of us invited to, the original plan was to stay there a couple of hours just to recive the new year and afterwards go home because we had to catch our flight. To make a short story we end up arriving to the party and our friend wasn’t there anymore but we meet his cousin, we started to drink and before we realized was 4am January the 1st!!! we were about to cry because our flight was a 7am and we didn’t packed or made any arrange with a cab to drop us off at the airport, lucky us this guy (our friend’s cousin) offered to take us to the hotel and take our bags and then drop us off to the airport. So yes, things like this happens things like this make me believe!!
Friends are just former strangers 🙂
What a wonderful story! We find such kind people in every nook & corner, just have to look around. 🙂