Describe a (short) journey that you disliked
You should say:
Where you went
Who you went with
What you did
And explain why you disliked this journey
BAND 8.5 Sample Answer:
I recently had a journey I wish I hadn’t bothered with. I decided to do some shopping in the capital city. But I had lent my car to a friend for a couple of days and so I thought it would be quite fun to hop on a bus for a change because it’s something I haven’t done for a long time. So I thought that I would set off early and get it done in a couple of hours and be back in time for lunch. The shopping wasn’t anything urgent, it was just that I had some free time that particular morning and thought it would be nice to do something different.However, the journey did not go as planned. It was a really hot day and when the bus finally arrived and I got on, it was clear that the air conditioner wasn’t working.What’s more, the bus was packed with people, so within minutes I began to feel hot and sticky and extremely uncomfortable.But what happened next was even worse. After about twenty minutes of traveling the bus started to make some really weird noises and eventually the driver pulled over and told us that there was a problem and that we couldn’t continue. We had to wait for another twenty five minutes or so for the next bus to arrive behind us and then we all got off the first bus and got on the second bus. The second bus already had some passengers on it, and with all of us from the first bus as well there was only room to stand. The whole experience was rapidly turning into something I was beginning to seriously regret. What had started out as something supposedly fun and different was quickly becoming one of the worst trips ever.Eventually, we arrived in the city and I wasn’t really in a good mood to go shopping so I stopped at a café to drink something and just relax a moment before heading to the shops.It really has to be one of the worst trips I’ve ever made on a bus and now I wish I had just waited until I had my car back; it would have been so much easier.
