Bit of a process to buy the old metro tickets - getting the Engrish option on the do-it-yourself machine is a good move for a start but in the beginning we were duplicating each and every move to buy the 2 tickets we needed. Then I realised that there was a cunning little button thingy which showed a toilet graphic of 2 people and so being the super bold, uninhibited traveller that I am, I pressed it. Nigel was already trying to knock my paw off it - why do something untoward when we've already got a good system going, he was thinking. But the machine had now doubled the price and so all seemed in order ie charging us for two people. However as we waited with bated breath at the slot - only ONE ticket came out. "SEE" he wanted to shout - you've ruined it and now we've paid twice what we should have. In panic he enlisted the help of a reluctant metro official who tried to give us the money back but he was offering only the coinage for ONE ticket. Oh no no no - we weren't accepting this palm off. We both pantomimed needing 2 tickets and with a flash of his wrist, the official flicked the ticket and lo and behold, there'd been two there all along, but nicely stuck together to humiliate the foreigners on their holidays and give all the workers in the booths something hilarious to watch. Each and every time after that though, we thoroughly enjoyed the seemingly one ticket coming out, only to show each other - 'ta da' - "there's actually two here, you know Nige".
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