The Titanic Awards

Name Mike Richard
Who? Vagabondish.com editor, traveler and web designer living in Rhode Island.
Age 30
Countries Visited About 40

Titanic Nominations
1.Worst Toilet Believe it or not: a public toilet in downtown Portland, Maine.  It was like someone let a pack of methed-up children loose on a poo pinata – every conceivable surface was covered.  It would’ve taken a CSI clean-up crew weeks to fully sterilize it, although simply burning it to the ground would’ve been best.
2. Worst Souvenir In Montreal, I found a 5′x7′ area rug that I knew my first serious girlfriend back home would love.  It was packaged exactly like a dead body.  I very stupidly lugged the damn thing several hundred miles on multiple train, subway and car rides to get it home.  I’m sure several folks along the way must’ve called the cops on me.  (Incidentally, that girl broke up with me the following week)
3. Worst Meal The currywurst at the top of Berlin’s Fernsehturm TV Tower.  It was my first foray into the wonderful culinary delights of currywurst, and it turned out to be nothing more than an outrageously overpriced Ball Park Frank.  Bonus: spending the better part of that night on the toilet praying for death!
4. Worst Sunburn Latrobe Festival.  I sat outside for twelve hours sans sunblock.  Back at our hotel that night, I felt only a strange tingling sensation in my whole face.  The next morning, my face was burnt, blistered and peeling like a zombie extra from 28 Days Later.  It hurt (and looked) so awful that I almost went to the hospital.  But, like any real man, I chose to down a glass of orange juice and walk it off.
5. Worst City for Driving Pick any one in SE Asia.  Seriously.

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