On a similar theme to the first two posts here...
My job sometimes takes me abroad (I live in the UK) and one week I was working in Naples, Italy on an industrial safety review. One of the administrative clerks in the factory was a young lad of about 17 who took a shine to me (I'm more than double his age), particularly after I was introduced as Miss X. I was working with a rather pretty young girl interpreter and this lad followed us around all week which was really sweet but a bit creepy at times. I did not, repeat not, lead him on or flirt with him; in fact, my Italian is non-existant and his English was schoolboy level. I thought he was interested in the girl, of course. Then on the Friday night I flew home.
One evening at the end of the following week there was a knock at my front door which I answered to find - you guessed it - the young lad. He had, get this, found my home address from my work permit details, then bunked off work on the Monday morning, hitched his way across Europe, spent his last pennies on the cross-channel ferry then hitched halfway up England and hiked from the nearest motorway junction to my house, reaching it on the Thursday night. He hadn't washed, shaved, cleaned his teeth or eaten properly in that time. He was really pleased to see me, but less impressed with my 6'2" live-in boyfriend who, thank God, saw the funny side.
I paid for his train fare home and a packet of fish and chips. I do have a heart.
The wackiest thing I've ever done for love, or at least the squidgy parts of it - and there have been many - was that a while ago I was working on a long contract in the Middle East and I got the weekend off unexpectedly. I had to take a local, then two international flights to get home, then reverse the process to be back at work the following Monday morning. My boyfriend and I managed to get one night - that is, eight hours - in a hotel in Heathrow. And it was worth every bloody second spent crammed into economy class and every bloody penny the tickets cost me.
x x x Jo