October 13, 2025 • 10 mins
Lisa traveled interstate recently for the first time with her new boyfriend so the guys opened the phones to find out what happened when you traveled with someone for the first time. Was it successful, was it a disaster? Wait until you hear the story from John about his trip to Bali with his new girlfriend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Lisa had a couple of weeks off.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, one week was spending at a courthouse, but the
first it was fun. Yes, you you went traveling with
your new.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes, yes, this can be the make or break moments started.
This is where you can discover if something gives you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is out of the comfort zone totally.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean seriously traveling with someone for the first time.
And I've been racking my brain here trying to come
up with something to tell you that's really annoying or
ikey or surprise me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And I can't traveling compassion.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh no, so you're building yourself up for a for
a tumble.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nothing's perfect nothing.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, nothing's perfect. Certainly not perfect, but it was it was.
I can't. I can't really fault the traveling experience.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He was very generous with the the wardrobe space he gave.
He offered me all the hangers if I wanted them,
and I said no, no, I didn't pack clothes that
really need to be ironed. He likes to shop, so
more than happy to take me to places where, you know,
good shopping spots that he knew about and doesn't make
(01:20):
a fuss if I want to try on six pairs
of shoes.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He is a very good wine during companion.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So this is okay.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So you did Melbourne and you did Adelaide, so let's
face it, you didn't really push like you weren't.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
No, you know, we're taking take it one step at
a time. This was a wine, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One wine and shopping to.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It and shopping to it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hardly putting the test? Is it hardly?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Are you sharing space you know around the clock.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Absolutely, And I am an old person set my way.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm becoming that.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So you know, it's very very testing. So it went great.
That's what.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's all I can report. What happened to you when
you traveled for the first time, had a great time.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Mine was probably a little bit more under under pressure.
Well because not long after I met my now wife, Yes,
she announced that I'm moving to China for a year
to work not in Shanghai or Beijing, but out in
the middle of nowhere in guan Shi, Gwaneshi Province. Okay,
some people who will know where that is. So yeah,
(02:37):
So we were traveling in parts of China where no
one spoke English, and so we're getting around cities like Nanning.
We got caught up in an airline strike, which included
fist fights at the departure gate in Kunming when the
plane actually.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Filmed me tastings assurance Smith any day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Flew ence to our destination and we're just about to land,
and then powered up again, turned around.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And went back to where we just come from.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That was their way of protesting against the against the airline. Okay,
and and then everybody and then we got back. And
then everyone's getting the biff on in the in the airport,
and we didn't. So we were lost in the middle
of you know, nowheresville.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And no one speaking the language coming to each other
for support.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, that in itself is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Uh, that's that's a little different to a wide topic.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The relationship moment though.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, you win, definitely, definitely together, definitely. Well, our flight
to Adelaide was delayed by forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Did anybody punch anybody out?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I don't know. We're in the contest.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Meanwhile in the real world. Ge all right, so what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think your I think your relationship needs to be
put to the test a little tougher before we called it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Go to a.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Russian gulag or something next time.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, it sort, you'd know whether it was for real
or not.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
What happened when you traveled together for the first time?
Where did you go? Did things go wrong? Did it
make or break the relationship?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I was just going to say, And that's the big,
the big question too. Are you still together?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It can it absolutely can be the make or break moment.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Did it kill it? Or did it make it stronger?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
John's on the line.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hello, John, Morning, John.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Good morning, guys. There you going.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We're good.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, it actually went quite disastrously.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Where did you go?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
My girlfriend and I went to Bali, Okay, and it
was her first time out of the country, not my
first time. And just for the benefit of the listeners,
John is not my real name. I'm not living anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, this is going to be a good story. Change
your name.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You bet you went to Bali.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So we went to Bali, and you know, I've been before.
I had barley belly before. I know, you know, I
know what the signs are. Anyway, I had a bit
of a cook gut and you know I've had you know,
we went out, had a great meal, went to this
you know, we went back to the hotel and we
turned in about two o'clock in the morning. I woke
(05:17):
up something didn't see him quite right, and I could
and I could feel this awareness in the bed, and
I thought, hang on, what's going on anyway, I put
my hand down and I just felt it, and oh
my goodness, it was absolutely covered. If crap was pictures,
(05:37):
this bed was the louve, it was everywhere. It was
just from from one corner to the other. You won't
but you just can't bore you. No, No, it was me.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You changed your name.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So so what happened was I thought, oh, look, we've
got to deal with this. We just can't leave it,
you know, because she's going to wake up eventually, if
she doesn't pass out from the smell anyway. So so
I woke her up very gingerly, and I just said, look, baby,
go and go and jump in the shower. Why And
then I held my hand up and she goes there, No,
(06:21):
So she went, she went and jumped in the shower,
and then I stood up, and you know, all of this,
all of the rest of this gift fell out of
my shorts and strip the bed back, got it, got
it all stooped, and there was no there was no
hiding as it was everywhere. Got on the phone straight
away to housekeeping, asked for some fresh sheets. He brought
(06:42):
to the room. The guy comes to the door. I'm
handing him his big pile like it. You know, I
still carries the baby. I'm just handing a big pile
and it covered in this stuff. It was horrific. And look.
I looked at the guy. He looked at me. I
looked down. I looked back at him and I said, look,
I'm sorry. My girlfriend has ballei belly. It's her first time.
(07:05):
Please don't please, don't be angry with her. And he
looked at me and he holds you and he holds
his hand up and he goes, no, that's okay. It
happened all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'll just take these to the incinerator.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So the next day when you go to breakfast at
the buffet, they're looking at her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yep, yep, John, what a crap holiday?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Are you still together?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's tests and and that's testing and sure, thank you John,
not your real name, but good on you for owning
up anyway, even if it is under a pseudonym.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Wow, Pete Canning to said, morning guys, short trips with
the X spouse were fine, but long trips I'd rather
have stuck pins in my eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are they still together? No?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
X X Yes, I missed that terrible navigator apparently. Oh yeah,
now in the car with someone giving directions. Thank goodness
for Ways the GPS.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yes, Ways, definitely, I'll never break up with Ways. No,
we get along just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It is easy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Whether there's a pothole, it does. Danuel in bold divers Hello.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
How's the go and go go ahead? Did your trip
go as well as Lisa's? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I went to CMC last year with my partner, and
we've been dating together for about a year. At that point,
started off shaky, sitting in Virgin delay after denay, so
it was about two and a half hours of delays.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh darn yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
So it was a bit stressful to start with, but
then we get there and it was all the smooth saleen.
We rock up at like eleven thirty at night, high
the car, go to the hole to go to the
first of all, no fighting, no arguments.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I couldn't falter. Love it and fast forward to present. Yes,
and I'm already in looking at proposing.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Everybody passed the test.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I love it. Except the airline.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's all right. You know what that two and a
half hour delay, now, let's be fair, that two and
a half hours that made it that exactly little extra
time to talk, just a little bit of testing at
the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yes, yes, clinging together through the uncertainty of where would
this damn.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Play take off.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We're sitting in the airport just and laughing because people
were stressing about it, and we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And if you're both of the same mind, that's when
you sit there and go, oh this this is good.
We can both handle a stressful moment together.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes, definitely, well.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Done, Daniel, and congratulations as keep us posted and how
that will go.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I want to know.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I'm interested now, Okay, see Daniel, have a great day.
So Lisa had a couple of weeks off.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, one week was spending at a courthouse, but the
first it was fun. Yes, you you went traveling with
your new.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yes, yes, this can be the make or break moments started.
This is where you can discover if something gives you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is out of the comfort zone totally.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I mean seriously traveling with someone for the first time.
And I've been racking my brain here trying to come
up with something to tell you that's really annoying or
ikey or surprise me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And I can't traveling compassion.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh no, so you're building yourself up for a for
a tumble.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nothing's perfect nothing.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, nothing's perfect. Certainly not perfect, but it was it was.
I can't. I can't really fault the traveling experience.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He was very generous with the the wardrobe space he gave.
He offered me all the hangers if I wanted them,
and I said no, no, I didn't pack clothes that
really need to be ironed. He likes to shop, so
more than happy to take me to places where, you know,
good shopping spots that he knew about and doesn't make
(01:20):
a fuss if I want to try on six pairs
of shoes.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He is a very good wine during companion.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So this is okay.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So you did Melbourne and you did Adelaide, so let's
face it, you didn't really push like you weren't.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
No, you know, we're taking take it one step at
a time. This was a wine, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One wine and shopping to.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It and shopping to it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hardly putting the test? Is it hardly?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Are you sharing space you know around the clock.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Absolutely, And I am an old person set my way.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm becoming that.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
So you know, it's very very testing. So it went great.
That's what.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's all I can report. What happened to you when
you traveled for the first time, had a great time.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Mine was probably a little bit more under under pressure.
Well because not long after I met my now wife, Yes,
she announced that I'm moving to China for a year
to work not in Shanghai or Beijing, but out in
the middle of nowhere in guan Shi, Gwaneshi Province. Okay,
some people who will know where that is. So yeah,
(02:37):
So we were traveling in parts of China where no
one spoke English, and so we're getting around cities like Nanning.
We got caught up in an airline strike, which included
fist fights at the departure gate in Kunming when the
plane actually.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Filmed me tastings assurance Smith any day.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Flew ence to our destination and we're just about to land,
and then powered up again, turned around.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And went back to where we just come from.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That was their way of protesting against the against the airline. Okay,
and and then everybody and then we got back. And
then everyone's getting the biff on in the in the airport,
and we didn't. So we were lost in the middle
of you know, nowheresville.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And no one speaking the language coming to each other
for support.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, that in itself is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Uh, that's that's a little different to a wide topic.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The relationship moment though.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, you win, definitely, definitely together, definitely. Well, our flight
to Adelaide was delayed by forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Did anybody punch anybody out?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I don't know. We're in the contest.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Meanwhile in the real world. Ge all right, so what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think your I think your relationship needs to be
put to the test a little tougher before we called it.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Go to a.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Russian gulag or something next time.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, it sort, you'd know whether it was for real
or not.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
What happened when you traveled together for the first time?
Where did you go? Did things go wrong? Did it
make or break the relationship?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I was just going to say, And that's the big,
the big question too. Are you still together?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It can it absolutely can be the make or break moment.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Did it kill it? Or did it make it stronger?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
John's on the line.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hello, John, Morning, John.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Good morning, guys. There you going.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We're good.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, it actually went quite disastrously.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Where did you go?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
My girlfriend and I went to Bali, Okay, and it
was her first time out of the country, not my
first time. And just for the benefit of the listeners,
John is not my real name. I'm not living anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, this is going to be a good story. Change
your name.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You bet you went to Bali.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So we went to Bali, and you know, I've been before.
I had barley belly before. I know, you know, I
know what the signs are. Anyway, I had a bit
of a cook gut and you know I've had you know,
we went out, had a great meal, went to this
you know, we went back to the hotel and we
turned in about two o'clock in the morning. I woke
(05:17):
up something didn't see him quite right, and I could
and I could feel this awareness in the bed, and
I thought, hang on, what's going on anyway, I put
my hand down and I just felt it, and oh
my goodness, it was absolutely covered. If crap was pictures,
(05:37):
this bed was the louve, it was everywhere. It was
just from from one corner to the other. You won't
but you just can't bore you. No, No, it was me.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You changed your name.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
So so what happened was I thought, oh, look, we've
got to deal with this. We just can't leave it,
you know, because she's going to wake up eventually, if
she doesn't pass out from the smell anyway. So so
I woke her up very gingerly, and I just said, look, baby,
go and go and jump in the shower. Why And
then I held my hand up and she goes there, No,
(06:21):
So she went, she went and jumped in the shower,
and then I stood up, and you know, all of this,
all of the rest of this gift fell out of
my shorts and strip the bed back, got it, got
it all stooped, and there was no there was no
hiding as it was everywhere. Got on the phone straight
away to housekeeping, asked for some fresh sheets. He brought
(06:42):
to the room. The guy comes to the door. I'm
handing him his big pile like it. You know, I
still carries the baby. I'm just handing a big pile
and it covered in this stuff. It was horrific. And look.
I looked at the guy. He looked at me. I
looked down. I looked back at him and I said, look,
I'm sorry. My girlfriend has ballei belly. It's her first time.
(07:05):
Please don't please, don't be angry with her. And he
looked at me and he holds you and he holds
his hand up and he goes, no, that's okay. It
happened all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'll just take these to the incinerator.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So the next day when you go to breakfast at
the buffet, they're looking at her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yep, yep, John, what a crap holiday?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Are you still together?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's tests and and that's testing and sure, thank you John,
not your real name, but good on you for owning
up anyway, even if it is under a pseudonym.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Wow, Pete Canning to said, morning guys, short trips with
the X spouse were fine, but long trips I'd rather
have stuck pins in my eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are they still together? No?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
X X Yes, I missed that terrible navigator apparently. Oh yeah,
now in the car with someone giving directions. Thank goodness
for Ways the GPS.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yes, Ways, definitely, I'll never break up with Ways. No,
we get along just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It is easy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Whether there's a pothole, it does. Danuel in bold divers Hello.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
How's the go and go go ahead? Did your trip
go as well as Lisa's? Well?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I went to CMC last year with my partner, and
we've been dating together for about a year. At that point,
started off shaky, sitting in Virgin delay after denay, so
it was about two and a half hours of delays.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh darn yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
So it was a bit stressful to start with, but
then we get there and it was all the smooth saleen.
We rock up at like eleven thirty at night, high
the car, go to the hole to go to the
first of all, no fighting, no arguments.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No nothing.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I couldn't falter. Love it and fast forward to present. Yes,
and I'm already in looking at proposing.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Everybody passed the test.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I love it. Except the airline.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's all right. You know what that two and a
half hour delay, now, let's be fair, that two and
a half hours that made it that exactly little extra
time to talk, just a little bit of testing at
the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yes, yes, clinging together through the uncertainty of where would
this damn.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Play take off.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
We're sitting in the airport just and laughing because people
were stressing about it, and we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And if you're both of the same mind, that's when
you sit there and go, oh this this is good.
We can both handle a stressful moment together.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes, definitely, well.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Done, Daniel, and congratulations as keep us posted and how
that will go.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I want to know.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I'm interested now, Okay, see Daniel, have a great day.
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