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    18 Unexpected Things You Miss When You Go Travelling

    Other than your family and friends. Obvs.

    RoxanneMac
    by RoxanneMac

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    1. Free food

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    Full access to your parents' kitchen? Forget it. Hostel-food is not for sharing

    2. Free toilet paper

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    No need for the awkward shake

    3. Shopping centres

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    You know, with more than one size and changing rooms

    4. Leaving your toiletries in the shower

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    Unless you want them to be used, thrown away or stolen

    5. Clean clothes

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    Taking time out of your day to hand-wash clothes? Ain't nobody got time for that

    6. Baths

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    In the unlikely event that your hostel has a bath, there is no chance you'll be dipping as much as a pinkie toe in that cesspool

    7. Netflix

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    And a lack of judgement for staying in bed all day and watching TV

    8. Your bed

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    Such a happy reunion

    9. Your own room

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    And if you are half of one of those travelling-together couples, forget being able to afford a private room

    10. Efficient electricity

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    Remember that time when it didn't take 12 hours to charge your phone? Nope, me neither

    11. Sufficient power sockets

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    And while we're on that, a 14-bed dorm room with one socket? Good luck with ever using that

    12. An undisturbed night's sleep

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    Count on being woken up at least five times a night

    13. Anyone caring if you had a good night's sleep

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    No one wants to hear about the dorm 7 disturbances

    14. Peace and quiet

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    And if you were thinking of getting some quiet in the day? Think again

    15. A sober night

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    In a hostel? While you're travelling? Unless you're getting up at 4am to hike to Machu Picchu forget it

    16. Waking up sober

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    With the amount you drank? Not happening

    17. Keeping secrets

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    Don't want everyone in the hostel to know what you did last night? Don't do it

    18. Keeping friends

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    You get to know someone, become best friends, and one day later they leave. They just go

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