When friends Dan Evans and Alex Stubbs went out for a Friday afternoon drink, they promised each other they would be home by 11.30pm. But it was actually two days before they got back to Aberdare, after an impromptu trip to the holiday island of Ibiza.
During their afternoon out in Merthyr, someone suggested that they go to Magaluf in Majorca. The pair, from Aberdare, thought it was a great idea and got a taxi to Cardiff Airport.
"We stopped off at home to collect our passports and phone chargers, and then headed to the airport," says 23-year-old Dan. "When we got there though the Majorca flight was fully-booked, but there was a flight to Ibiza, so we booked ourselves on to that one. "
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With no hotel and no return flight home booked, the pair bought some shorts and headed straight to the Ocean Beach club, before finding a nightclub. Dan says: "We literally partied the whole weekend, and then when the sun came up on Sunday morning we had to think about how we were going to get home."
Dan and Alex had only bought a one-way tickets from Cardiff, and the only one back on Sunday was to London Stansted.
"It was more difficult getting a plan back, but we sorted one, flew back into London in plenty of time to be at work on Monday," says Dan. "It was a bit of a shock to the system, but it was all worth it. We have no regrets and will probably do it again, but it might be a few years before we can do it again." The pair made a video about their adventure, which has been liked thousands of times and have received lots of comments.
One person said: "They had the time of they lives good on them after the s*** two years we all had, I say good on them for living they best lives." Another said: "I normally ended up in Splott."
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