Travelling has become a popular hobby today and millions of people try to leave their homeland at least once a year or two to see and explore new places they have always dreamed of. Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, The Taj Mahal and many other famous monuments we see in magazines and books are now accessible to everyone. The only thing you need to do is to have an external passport, a visa and a pair of flight tickets. However, travelling can be different from what the majority expects it to be. It doesn’t involve only planes, trains, ships, hotels, monuments, restaurants, etc. Nowadays, travelling can be more extreme and cheap at the same time. Hitchhiking is becoming popular mainly among young people. Hitchhiking means travelling with the help of other people you have never met. You just have to stand at the edge of a road, facing traffic, with the thumb upwards. In this way, you travel meeting more and more people that help to reach your destination. However, hitchhiking is much more challenging than any other way of travelling. You should be tough and well-prepared. You should be ready to walk a lot, to use a map, to organise your trip well bringing enough food and arranging sleeping places. And finally, if you hitchhike, you must be very careful, because people who agree to pick you up are not all friendly and faithful. If you bear in mind all these things, you will definitely have an unbelievable trip.
During periods of terrorist activity, people in Britain are always being warned to look out for bombs. Any bag or parcel without an owner WAS seen as a risk to the public. Some time ago a cardboard box WAS found at the entrance to Bristol Zoo one day. It was noticed BY a visitor and reported to the director. Clearly, if it was a bomb and it went off, people might BE killed. So army bomb experts WERE called, and the box WAS safely blown up in a controlled explosion. Soon afterwards IT was reported that the box had BEEN left there by a boy wanting to find a new home for his pet rat. He WAS tired of the rat, he explained. The director of the zoo is thought TO be unenthusiastic about looking after people’s unwanted pets. No one knows what the rat would think if it WAS blown up.