Most of us have done something stupid after a night on the tiles... but not many of us woken up in Paris.
But that’s what happened to Luke Harding after going out in Oldham.
Luke, 19, was going home in a taxi from the Tokyo Project nightclub when he decided to visit the Eiffel Tower.
He
had his passport in his pocket because he had been using it as ID to
prove he was old enough to drink - and told the cabby to take him to
Manchester Airport where he boarded an early morning flight to France.
The
next thing he remembered was waking up in a toilet cubicle in Charles
De Gaulle Airport, almost 400 miles from his home in Oldham.
He later tweeted a photo of himself stood next to the Eiffel
Tower and a second pic with the caption: “Sat outside the Arc De Triumph
eating a croissant.”
The sheet metal worker said: “I went to drop
my friend off at his house in a taxi but for some reason I randomly
decided that I don’t want to go home but stay out instead.
“I
found my passport which I’d been using for ID and was looking at this
flight app on my phone and it was saying something like ‘cheap flights
to Paris’.
“I decided the best thing to do was book a flight to
see the Eiffel tower. It was just a spur of the moment thing and seemed
like a good idea at the time.
“The taxi driver asked me about
where I was going and what I was going to do in Paris but I couldn’t
bring myself to tell him I was a drunken idiot who spontaneously booked a
trip to Paris, so I sold him some story that I was a junior doctor
going to a convention.
“I don’t recall much of the flight because I
fell asleep and then the next thing I know I find myself lay next to a
toilet in a cubicle in the middle of Charles De Gaulle airport and
thinking what the hell have I just done?
“I rang my mum and said ‘don’t panic mum but can you pick me up at Manchester Airport at 8pm?’
"Then I told her what I had done and she went mental at me.
“I had 8 hours to kill so I booked a bus into Paris and had a wander around.
Where the night began: Tokyo Project nightclub in Oldham
"I did get to see the Eiffel Tower but there was a massive
queue so I didn’t get to go up it but at least I had my picture taken
outside the Arc de Triumph and I went to a cafe for coffee and a
croissant and sat outside.”
Since then Luke has become a Twitter sensation as news of his big night out spread.
Luke was inundated with messages from Twitter users amused by his escapade.
Dale Harris said: ‘“Don’t even know Luke Harding but I want to shake his hand.”
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