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While a holiday is supposed to be a time to relax, sometimes travelling can force us out of retirement to reprise our role as a true travelling stunt guru.

Here are a few GIFs that remind us just how real travel parkour is.

1. When you’re too excited about travelling to sleep

2. And have more energy than you’ve ever had before…

3. But no matter how ready you are, you’re constantly running late

4. You booked a dodgy room to save money

5. So you ask for that upgrade and somehow get it

6. It’ll take you forever to get used to hotel beds

7. And sometimes your hotel elevator will stop working

8. When the public transport in a new country is super confusing

9. When you’re trying to impress the local girls…

10. Then they show you how it’s done

11. When your rental car looks bigger in the brochure but you don’t wanna complain

12. When you think you know how to do something but it’s slightly different in another country

13. When you try to be a leader even though you’ve got no idea

14. But you take the shortcut anyway

15. And sometimes you’ll get frustrated at all the lines at the tourist attraction

16. But then you and your BFF sign up for something neither of you wanted to do in the first place

17. It’s alright though, cos you’ll eventually find something you’re really good at

18. When you’re exhausted and just want to go home

19. When you finally get home to your own bed

About the author

Martin FlemingI’m an Australian writer who left his country after the cost of beer hit double figures. I’ve spent the last six months travelling the world and was most recently tricked into hiking the Inca Trail in Reeboks. I blame Tinder glitches for my loneliness. I like sharks.

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