Solo traveller left ‘humbled’ after accidentally wandering into family home thinking it was a café
A solo traveller was left ‘humbled’ after she realised she had accidentally wandered into a family’s home thinking it was a café.
Kendall had been travelling alone in China when she found a spot she thought was a ‘cute little tea shop’ in Zhujiajiao.
Alongside a video of her pouring tea uploaded to the @ourtravitude Instagram account, the tourist explained in the caption how she ‘sat down and ordered tea’.
However, the building she thought was a café was in fact someone’s home.
Kendall described the house as ‘so peaceful and inviting that I just walked in, smiled, sat down and enjoyed the tea they offered me’.
Luckily, the residents were more than happy to have the solo traveller join them for tea.
‘It wasn’t until I finished and went to ask how much I owed that they laughed and gently told me… this was their home. Not a business,’ she explained.
Despite the mix up, Kendall recalled how the family were ‘so kind’ and ‘insisted I was welcome’.
Kendall had been solo travelling in China when she found a spot she thought was a ‘cute little tea shop’ in Zhujiajiao
They even went as far as offering her more tea before she went on her way.
‘No bill. Just pure kindness and quiet hospitality,’ she penned.
Reflecting on the memory, Kendall wrote: ‘Solo travel has a way of humbling you, surprising you, and reminding you how generous people can be even when you get it completely wrong.’
The post attracted thousands of comments and many shared their own travel tales.
One recalled how their friend mistook a dry cleaners for a clothes shop and wrote: ‘My friend started trying clothes on in a “clothing shop” in Vietnam…. it was a dry cleaners and he was trying on people’s cleaned clothes.’
Another shared how someone had tried to buy food from what turned out to be a family BBQ.
They explained: ‘Know a guy who did this to a family barbecue on the sidewalk, requested two meat skewers and a beer, got served, tried to pay and was told they thought he was someone’s cousin.’
While someone else accidentally attended a funeral when they were in Paris.
Alongside a video of her pouring tea, the tourist explained in the caption how she ‘sat down and ordered tea’
‘My mom and I sat in on a funeral in a church in Paris for like 20 min,’ they wrote. ‘We thought it was a regular mass until we saw the casket at the front.’
Another said: ‘Once went into what I thought was a restaurant in Morocco that had what I thought was a dinner and a show type vibe with dancing etc.
‘Y’all that was a whole house and me and my two friends walked into THEIR WEDDING.
‘(They were incredibly nice and insisted we stay).’
