Kilometers of Adventures

4.8

A group of British tourists, who wanted very much to come to Moscow and see the Olympic Games, thought that a bus was the best transport for such a long way. So one fine day they left London for Moscow in an old bus.

Of course the tourists could not know what adventures they would have on their way there. When they were not far from Amsterdam, the little old bus broke into pieces. So they had to find another bus. They found one which was also so old that no one could tell them in what year it was made. It could run no more than fifty kilometers an hour. But the British tourists bought this bus because, as they said, every kilometer which they made brought them nearer to Moscow.

When they were near Smolensk, they had another adventure: the wind-screen wipers of the bus did not work. There was much rain at that time, and the driver could not see the road very well. But this did not stop the British tourists. They tied strings to the wind-screen wipers and all the way to Moscow two men or two girls in turn moved them by hand.

When at last they got to Moscow they all laughed very much when they told the story of their adventures.

And they also said:

“You know, even if the engine of our bus had broken down we would have pushed the bus with our hands. We all wanted very much to get to Moscow.”