My trip to Venice was a disaster

So I forgot how long we planned this event in Venice, maybe 4-5 months. It was a complete disaster.

There was no audience, no prestitious cafe (as promissed), NO NOTHING.

So I was stressed because the communication with Albino went from semi normal conversations to "voice clips" on WhatsApp.

I really thought we would at-least have 5-10 people in the audience, even if they didnt pay the entrence and I was keeping a positive mind until I finally realized that Albino Galuppini would not deliver and was not trustworthy at all.

I understand latin culture better than most scandinavian I believe, but there is a limit to the amount of BULLSHIT anybody can accept.

So what happened?

Well I bourgth the airplane ticket maybe a month before the event and we made the presentation ready over maybe a week. Usually we do it even faster but I had some other work to attend to also so it took a week, but it was still fast.

I sent the presentation to Albino as soon as it was ready, maybe 1 month before the event. He never even looked at it a week before I learned.

I accepted that and went anyway. What I meet was an old damaged man, I feel sorry for him, but that does not change the fact that I spend a considerate amount of time and money on this failed business trip.

After I got the airplane ticket the communication went less frequent and he almost never talked in a normal conversation again but instead wanted to exchange "voice clips" on whatsapp. Complete BULLSHIT.

Anyway I meet him at "Sant Angelo" water buss stop. He was looking very different than his pictures online, very old and damaged. I try to keep a positive mind. We say hallo and he could barely remember the way to the appartment even it was a short distance from the water buss stop. When we finally were at the right street, he was trying the keys in 3-4 doors and it became clear to me there was a serious problem. I mean if you just rented a place how hard is it to remember the entrence 1-2 min walk away from the buss stop?

The situation was so wierd, I had a hard time realizing if he was playing games with me or if he really couldnt remember the right door.

He ask me to try the key in several doors, it was already a crazy situation.

We finally enter the right door and the appartment is very old. I will say its livable but there is only a double bed and a sofa and he expect 3 grownup men to sleep under those conditions. Also the living room has a door that is locked from the inside of the living room with a sliding lock (More about that later).

I brougth two gifts for him, one is a danish liquor "Gammmel Dansk" from the airport and some Swiss chocolate from my stop in switzerland. I make coffee for us and we sit and talk.

Now I dont remember the whole conversation, but it was mostly repeating the same stuff from my side about my life, that I already wrote to him or told him in voice, like he needed me to repeat it in person to trust I speak the truth.

He told me some more things about his life which he asked me to keep secret. I mean I didnt wanted to keep any secrets from this man at this point, but I guess its not really important for my post to share these details about his life, so I guess I can keep it secret as he requested, even it seeems too much considering the situation he put me in.

So anyway, I guess I should not share all details and try to keep it shorter.

At one point I was going to open the door into the other room with the sliding lock and he told me to not open it, that the owner said it was private. Doing our conversation there was a noice from that room, I told him "there is something in there", he said nothing. It was scary and wierd.

I said to him maybe we should go find a supermarket to buy at.least some water but the problem was he could not even find the supermarket. I thought he knew this small town called Venice. I had to ask locals for directions, he seemed very broken and confused when we walked the city.

We never found the supermarket, instead we stopped at a small pizzaria where we bourgth some water and some pizza slices.

I was trying to stay positive and thinking "We are in Venice buying original pizza".

Anyway you get the idea about whats coming.

So we were waiting for another speaker called Martin Liedtke, who has a youtube channel.

Martin arrived and he was also disappointed about what he saw. It was only Albino that slept the night, Martin didnt wanted to share the double bed with me, so he tried sleeping at the floor in the living room and I was in the bed, I didnt sleep at all, I was scared the whole night and devastated that spend so much ressources on an event that would not pay off anything.

I ordered an EXPENSIVE airplane ticket home in the middle of the night online, so I could fly home the next day. I could not change my original ticket or get any money refunded as I did trust Albino in the past and didnt order a cancellation insurence.

Anyway I asked them to follow me to the water bus stop the next day and I went to the airport in the morning, after waiting in the airport for many hours in safety away from this creepy situation I finally flew back to scandinavia and landed around 16 back in safety.

So why was I scared?

well Albino scared me several times with his behaviour, his words and the room that was having the sliding lock and we didnt know what was in there. Also at one point him and Martin talked about inviting a woman over and it was unclear if I even had a bed, I told them that that part made me feel uncomfortable.

I think this is enough details.

It was Mark Sargent who even promoted this event online on his youtube channel where he made a video about it. Mark never showed up, Eric Dubay never showed up, at the beginning it was announced that Eric Dubay, Mark Sargent, Patricia Steers and more would be there.

I dont know how I could find myself in this horrible situation. Mark is partly to blame.

I listened a little to Marks "content" and he say he has no children, just like Albino. In the past I meet a guy locally who said this term to me about himself "Evolutionary rivet", as a term to describe people that never got children in a high age. In my personal experience a lot of these kinds-of people has a very negative impact on my life and that was what happened here also with Albino and Mark who got me into this failed business trip.

Be careful with these people they are completely untrustworthy.

You heard it here first.

Lasse

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