I had a similar thing happen with a (now ex) wife in Spain. We saw a flamenco show somewhere and stupidly decided NOT to take a taxi back to the hotel but to walk instead. Amazing how much smarter we were after a couple drinks!

As we’re walking in the direction we think we’re supposed to go we see another couple also out walking but they’re Spanish (of course) so we can’t really communicate. Walking along in this sleeping foreign city that has rolled up its sidewalks got a bit intimidating.

We did have to walk quite a ways and eventually found a cab but I was expecting someone to jump us being the dumb and obvious tourists we were.