I approached The Gringo Trail with no expectations other than to be mildly entertained and a little informed. Its strap line is ‘A darkly comic road trip through South America’ […]

Hmmmmmmm. How can this be? A book called Ryanland which seems to be almost exactly the same as How Low Can You Go? Clearly I still had to buy it […]

I’d been reading about Couchsurfing – which had sounded both scary and exciting – so my interest was piqued when I spotted a book called ‘On the Couch – Tales […]

‘How Low Can You Go?’ is written by Tom Chesshyre; a travel writer for The Times, and it really is the story of my Ryanair life. I was in London […]

The Wrong Way Home by Peter Moore popped up on Amazon as a recommendation based on previous purchases. With a few pounds to go to reach the free postage limit, […]

I thought it was about time I fed my travel writing addiction, and bought another book last week called The Backpacker’s Bible by Suzanne King and Elaine Robertson. I was […]

How could I resist buying a book which had the title ‘High Heels and a Head Torch’?! Genius! And, what’s more, as it’s also ‘The Essential Guide for Girls Who […]

Twenty Countries, Four Continents and Three Wedding Rings may sound like a title stolen from Four Weddings and a Funeral, but it certainly had me thinking about an interesting journey […]

This book had me at the title. 30: A Sense of Adventure and no Sense of Direction is Mark Callaghan’s account of speed-travelling through 30 countries in just nine months […]