The first country I ever went to outside of Australia was Ukraine (if you can exclude the Hong Kong & Helsinki airports). I got out of the airport nearly 5 hours late, and with limited Ukrainian (I'd never spoken to a person before, but had gotten ok at the tapes) I got myself to the central station only to find out that all the connecting trains were booked out. Despite Kyiv being very busy that night, I managed to find myself accommodation, dinner and even a new friend, before I crashed from the utter exhaustion of 50+ hours of nonstop flying & airports. My only true rookie mistake was drinking the water, something I was severely reprimanded for by my Ukrainian friends parents (who were doctors).

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