Trapped under the boat in a waterfall !!!
River Cruise gone wrong.

Happy 60th birthday darling wife, fancy a river cruise in Turkey? Oh no not that sort of cruise, it’s fizzy wet and bubbling and makes you feel funny but its not a champagne buzz, it’s a white water scream.

Sorry the raft turned over and you were trapped inside, but at least you held onto the paddles that everyone else lost in their panic.

It was a bit scary when the raft turned over (they cut that bit from the video!)

I was in the water in front of the raft as it hurtled down the rapids, fending off rocks and I couldn’t see you until …. in an act of you defying gravity, you were underneath the upturned raft, and lifted it up with one hand in indignant fury!

It was almost funny that your anger was directed at the people who had released their grip on their paddles. You had gathered their paddles while you were under the raft.

Perhaps you saved the day because the gorge was so steep sided with no paths or route out that without a paddle we would have been literally “up the creek”.

Anyhow, we all survived intact, well, nearly intact…

I broke my nose when I was thrown out of the raftand the Russian girlies were looking at me strangely, – and even more strangely when I took my bent nose and forced it back into place and just carried on bleeding.
These softy Ruskies haven’t they seen rugby injuries before?