Describe a journey that took longer than you expected.
You should say:
- when you are planning to buy it
- how much it would cost you
- when you took the journey
and explain why it took longer than expected.
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One of the things, which I don’t really like, is a long journey. But, I don’t really control the roads or the flow of traffics on them. So, we can’t really help it if our journeys take longer than expected just as it did when I was travelling to my sister's house about a few months ago.
My sister, who is younger than me, lives in another town which is a bit far away from me. In fact, in normal traffic and road condition, it usually takes about 8 hours to reach her place. So, I don’t really like to travel to her by road unless I have a very valid reason to do so. So, I try to take the aerial route when I visit her. But, unfortunately, when my sister asked me about a few months ago to visit her in order to help her move to a different place because of her new job location, I couldn’t take any flight. In fact, I found that all the flight tickets were sold because some public holidays were being observed.
So, I didn’t have any other choice but to take a bus to reach my sister’s place. Initially, the bus was maintaining its regular speed, but after a while, it became slower and slower. I was growing more and more frustrated, but I couldn’t really do anything about it. So, I put my earphone in my ears and started to listen to some of my favourite music on my smartphone. At one point, I even fell asleep, and when I actually arrived at my destination, I was already late by at least a couple of hours.
Anyway, it took me longer than expected because the highway, I took, usually remains very busy most of the time. But, the situation got even worse, as far as the road traffic was concerned, since more than the usual number of people was travelling on that day because of public holidays. Besides, it was only a two-lane highway, as opposed to the 4-lane highway, which forced the traffic to run even slower. Naturally, as a result, my journey was longer than expected.
