15 Things All People Who Have Stayed In A Hostel Understand

This is much worse in mixed dorm hostels. Travelling, especially in warmer climates, plays havoc with the ol’ hormones. Something about the elation of being free, of travelling and having nothing but time to do what you want also taps into something more primal.

Before long everybody is checking one another out and hoping to get drunk enough – alcohol is still needed, because who doesn’t want to have a good excuse the next morning? – that something might just happen.

Then there is just that one person who has been travelling for years and had no action and seems to have completely forgotten how to interact with the fairer sex.