The price of spending all your holiday cash …

Wednesday, 18 Feb, 2005 0

A tourist has finally flown home after he reportedly became stranded in a Brazilian airport for some five months.

According to the online news provider Ananova, Dutch traveller Sheridan Gregorio got stuck at Fortaleza airport, in the north of the country, because he had spent all of his money.

While he held a valid airline ticket, he did not have enough money to pay departure tax and subsequently missed his flight.

The problems really started, however, when Gregorio was informed that the ticket was non-changeable and non-refundable.

He reportedly started sleeping in the airport, cleaning restaurants and being paid in food and money.

Once he had raised enough to pay the departure tax, Ananova reports, Brazilian police managed to persuade the un-named carrier to accept the original ticket.

Gregorio is quoted as telling Jornal del Globo: “The Brazilian people were really nice to me; they really treated me well.”

Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad



 



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