I had my first FMF threesome while traveling alone in Europe in my mid 20's. I was on the all-night ferry from Brindisi, Italy to Athens Greece, when I noticed two attractive Australian women, around my age, drinking at the bar on the upper deck. I considered going over hoping for a chat as we had all night to kill before arrival. We were all "deck travelers" -- effectively that meant third class passengers with no reserved seats below deck as we crossed the Ionian Sea in route to Greece.
As a deck passenger you were allowed to sit or lay on the deck, and many backpackers were already camped out in sleeping bags for the night. But most of the young people were drinking at the bar or sharing bottles of wine they brought aboard.
The two Aussies were seated at the bar, and quickly surrounded by every male from 16 to 60 traveling without a partner. I realized the competition for their attention was likely annoying so I decided not to bother them further. I squeezed through the crowd to the bar, got my drink, nodded to them with a wink and a smile, raised my glass and said, "Here's looking at you!" They smiled back, and I walked away leaving them to the throng of men vying for their attention. I knew any attempt for conversation was useless in that crowd.
We arrived in Athens at almost mid-day and I stepped over many fellow travelers still sleeping off their drink the night before. I checked my map, threw on my backpack and disembarked. I set out to find a "pensione" style hotel for the night. I found a well-reviewed spot that was highly praised for its lively bar, checked in and paid for a shared "boarding house" room with two sets of bunk beds and no bathroom in the room. I locked my pack to a bed frame and hit the street.
I returned to the pensione around sundown and the bar was already hopping. As it turned out, the two Aussies were staying at the same place! Since their more posh "double room with bath" had not yet been cleaned they were killing time in the bar. Once again, they were surrounded by a throng of males. Most were fellow international travelers, but some were local and older Greek and Italian men.
They were seated together with a guy on each side offering them and surrounded by standing males two rows deep all talking at them simultaneously.
As chance would have it the guy seated next to the woman on the right left his stool and went to the men's room. I took his seat as I ordered a drink. I turned to the woman and said "I saw you two the on ferry, seems you haven't become any less popular in Greece. I'm sure you don't want to be bothered so I will leave you alone but hold this seat to give you some space." They said, thanks and raised their glasses in mock toast to my own mock chivalry.
At that point, the guy returned to reclaim his seat. As chance would have it he was an Italian and told me that I was in his seat in his native language. I pretended not to understand him and took a sip of my drink. He tried to explain himself again this time with hand gestures so I just pointed at my full glass and myself, then said "want another?" in English. He shook his head said something in angry Italian. I ignored him, downed my drink, and turned to the bartender to order another one. At that point he gave up and left.
The girls took a page from my playbook and simply stopped trying to tell the men surrounding them that they wanted to drink in peace and completely ignored them instead. The three of us sat there in silence drinking slowly until the throng of men all decided to give up and wander off.
Once the din died down around us, the two ladies spoke to me. They started by thanking me for not haranguing them. We entered into a friendly getting-to-know-you conversation of the type one has with fellow long-term travelers -- "where you are coming from, where you headed, what are you hoping to get out of your trip, and so on." The guy seated on the other side of them was also an American (living in Athens) and he was now being included in our chat and we four became more conversational.
After a couple hours of drinking, the ladies suggested going to dinner and since the other guy knew his way around Athens he suggested a good place. We followed him there. At that point I first started to think this might end up with us partnered and I might get laid tonight. At least I hoped so.
While we were dining one of the other guests at the restaurant (a lone drunken man in his 70s) approached our table and interrupted our conversation. He asked where we were from in nearly intelligible Spanglish. As it turned out he was from Argentina, so I began speaking with him in Spanish. He was an interesting old drunk; a tango musician with very colorful stories. So colorful in fact, that I became more interested in him than the women for a moment. I did my best to translate for the other three who spoke no languages other than English. They seemed as amused by him as I was. The appreciative (and very lonely) old man bought a bottle of wine for the table, and then another. Everyone was suddenly more pleased about his presence after the wine arrived.
Then, as if by surprise, one of the ladies said it was time to leave. It instantly occurred to me that I had probably lost any further chance of getting laid because I had not shown proper attention to these lovely women, instead conversing with the old, drunk, Argentine musician. Dumb me.
We paid the bill and headed back to the pensione. I did my best in the 11th hour to make amends wondering now which one of the two I was supposed to be paired with should that play still be in the cards. I assumed that it was the taller of the two, as I was the taller male and she was the one sitting next to me originally in the bar. So, I cozied up to her a bit during the walk back. Both were very lively and friendly in route "home" so I felt we still had a small chance of pairing up when we got there.
When we got to the pensione, the other guy said abruptly, "Well, I have an early workday tomorrow, it was fun, thanks. Good night." Then he turned to leave. My first thought was "you idiot, I think we were both going to get laid, and now neither of us will."
As we entered the hotel the shorter (and hotter) of the two women said as if to us all, "Well since we don't have anything else to drink, I think it's time for bed."
I wondered doubtfully if that was an invitation for a threesome. But I doubted that was likely. I had never had one in my life at this point, nor knew anyone else who had. I had been treated to something like a threesome by an old girlfriend named Anita, but not where I got unlimited access to both women for sex. I had only read about such things. Only what Anita allowed me from the "other woman". I thought it highly unlikely it was going to happen now with these two Aussie nurses on their "working vacation" in London and then in a sort of slow-motion return to Queensland to boyfriends they each referred to as "my fiancΓ©".