Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder. It's Monday the 27th of October, although I need to say I am recording this in the capital of Moldova, Kisinau, on Saturday morning. I'm here with my friend Bram Houghton boss. I have met him in order to be able to report on the latest

Lupine travel race which took him and many others from Vienna to this city on an incredibly

roundabout race. Bram said, have you got anywhere to stay?

Because I've got a very nice Airbnb in the centre

and it's got a spare double room if you're interested.

And I said, Brian, that would be fantastic.

As usual, I hadn't booked a hotel.

And two nights here in this beautiful apartment

struck me as just what I wanted.

We're right on the main road, but it's still very nice and quiet, clean.

Got a nice cup of tea brewing over there.

My room is fantastic, lovely big double bed, a desk, everything you want, great Wi-Fi.

It was really good value. I think £150 for three nights.

I can't do better than that.

Except that while I was very soundly sleeping in the early hours of this morning,

something happened. What happened, Bram?

The Airbnb host got in touch to ask if I happened to be up and around, because

we had a golly lock situation on our hands. We were in the wrong apartment. I should have been in

the one bedroom apartment, which is the one that I booked, and I had acquired the wrong key

from the lockbox, and yeah, we basically had to find some other accommodation for the guests

wanting to check in here in the middle of the night wasn't it simply a matter of saying oh look

we're already here so there's clearly another apartment and you just go in there there was but there

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