I’m the kind of person who love to uh visit many places andjoy enjoy the natural views and uh, everything. So I have uh I have uh traveled many places by um by uh bus, car or uh, car or rail by train. But now I would like to talk about a journey that I uh that I I went by a car. And it it uh is took a long time. So uh uh. In the last month we and me and I and some of my friends uh decided to go go cox’budget and at the time we planned uh the time um. I just uh finished my uh exam and so we are all plan to go there and uh we are all decided decided that we will um go by a go by a car. So ah, we are we we were going from silect to uh coxus buer. So it usually takes about takes uh about uh six to 8 hours to go there. And uh because it is like uh uh 500 km so it takes like eight to uh six to 8 hours. So when we started our journey on the time we say that uh uh after going for about like 100 when we passed daka and that time uh the rain rain started so heavily that we have to stop stop because of rain. So after uh after some time uh uh the rain stop but uh the um. The water level is increased all over the road and because of that we have to uh stop our journey for about six to uh six to uh 10 hours. And after that we are um again started our journey and started our journey and we we go there. So because of that it’s uh, take a long long time. But I uh, feel very disappointed about because we have have lost our most of our time. So we lately went there uh and we couldn’t enjoy the sunset view because we were late. So it was so disappointing for me. But uh although I enjoyed the journey and uh, it is.
Band 6+: Describe a car journey you made that look longer than expected
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I'm the kind of person who loves to visit many places and enjoy the natural views. I've traveled to many places by bus, car, or train. But today, I'd like to talk about a journey I took by car that took much longer than expected. Last month, my friends and I decided to go to Cox's Bazar. At the time, I had just finished my exams, and we were all excited to get away. We decided to travel by car. We were going from Sylhet to Cox's Bazar, a journey that usually takes about six to eight hours, as it's around 500 kilometers. We started our journey, and after driving about 100 kilometers, we passed Dhaka. It started raining heavily, forcing us to stop. After a while, the rain stopped, but the water level on the roads had risen significantly. This meant we had to halt our journey for about six to ten hours. Eventually, we were able to continue our journey and finally reached Cox's Bazar. The delay was disappointing because we lost a lot of time. We arrived late and missed the sunset view, which was a real bummer. Despite the setbacks, I enjoyed the journey itself. It was a memorable experience, even if it wasn't exactly what we had planned.
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