It's been a while since I've actually written here. Anyway. Adversity and conflict are generally accepted as prime ingredients for a good story, as is 'writing what you know'. So I'll combine the two into a writing game - adversity taken from my recent vacation.

You've just arrived in Heathrow airport after travelling for 30 hours (it's a long trip from Australia, plus there were flight delays). You're so tired you're about to drop, and you've waited another two hours for your luggage to be taken off the broken luggage escalator and delivered to the baggage claim area.

You'd booked accommodation in a hostel, but don't know where you're staying because they have several buildings, and assign you to the address the day before you arrive - which was meant to be before you flew, but someone dropped the ball there, and they emailed you only twelve hours before (which is when you were already on a plane - you haven't read that email, and don't know it exists yet). You're supposed to call them for them to collect you from a particular tube station, or check your email for after-hours check-in instructions.

Your phone, which was supposed to be on roaming, has no signal. Your cashpassport, on which you have loaded several hundred pounds, refuses to work. Your laptop can't find any usable wireless at the airport, and when you borrow thirty pence from someone for a phone call, you discover your accommodation has shut its office for the day.

So you have, in short, no phone, no internet, nowhere to stay, and no money.  You're exhausted. What do you do?