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EBay Limited acts as a credit broker not a lender. We may receive commission if your application for credit is successful, the commission does not affect the amount you will pay under your agreement. As our boat pulled up on the beach we were greeted with flashing lights, thumping sound systems and the sight of hundreds of people dancing to competing beats along the beach. The toilet in Mirindi’s house was the first hole-the-ground type I’d encountered on my journey. It was also an extraordinary English language laboratory with its walls completely covered with pages from English magazines and books.
I did have to put it down and stop reading it for about two weeks and then came back to it and enjoyed it even more when I came back to it. I have two of his other books to read but these are in paperback. And he's going to do it on a budget of $5,000.
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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The night I was there I noticed men disappearing into the bushes beside the bridge and not returning. Naturally, I clambered down to check out where they were going.
Inspired by the hippies of the ’60s, I set off from the UK to see if it was still possible to travel overland from London to Australia. He is a Vespa enthusiast and his 2005 book Vroom with a View and 2007 book Vroom by the Sea feature trips through Italy taken on vintage Italian motorscooters. Australian writer's story of traveling completely by surface (and there are several points where he's wishes he'd flown!) from London to Sydney.
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Moore takes a different route - he does some of the above, but his main intention is to make the reader laugh as he shares not only his travels but his comments on pop music, the absurdities and hassles of life on the road, and some of the odd characters he runs into. Peter Moore is an itinerant hobo who is lucky enough to be able to support his insatiable travel habit through writing. He is the author of four acclaimed travel books - The Wrong Way Home, The Full Montezuma, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted (shortlisted for the WHSMith People's Choice Travel Book Award) and Vroom with a View as well as the classic alternative travel guide, No Shitting in the Toilet. When he's not on the road living out of his senselessly overweight backpack, he alternates between London and Sydney with his collection of souvenir plastic snowdomes and Kinder Surprise toys. He is the author of several acclaimed travel books - The Wrong Way Home, The Full Montezuma, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted (shortlisted for the WHSmith People's Choice Travel Book Award) and Vroom with a View as well as the classic alternative travel guide, No Shitting in the Toilet. When he's not on the road living out of his senselessly overweight backpack, he alternates between London and Sydney with his collection of souvenir plastic snow domes and Kinder Surprise toys.
I love to travel and I thought I would love this book but it was lacking in any real insight or wisdom. Just kind of a travel log about an interesting trip. Don't buy this because it might be a Bill Bryson... Bryson does a good book, with his astute descriptions of people he meets, and places he sees. This gives good descriptions of places that he sees, but there's virtually no people involved. Which is a shame, because if this self-styled hippie actually bothered to speak to other people, it would be quite a good book.
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The "short way" home still takes 24 hours, and that's more than enough for me. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The seller has not specified a postage method to United States. The account of an eight-month trip over land and sea from London to Sydney by a young Australian.
It brought back memories of back packing in China in 1990. You made me remember the frustration of trying to arrange anything there in those days. Days there were either very hard or very rewarding.
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By far the best book I read for a long while. Striking a chord with anyone who has embarked on such a life-enhancing Grand Tour and entertaining all who love to read about such adventures but would never be fool enough to grab that rucksack and go, The Wrong Way Home is a funny, irreverent, acutely observed travel classic. It was a severe case of hippie envy that impelled Peter Moore to travel home from London to Sydney without ever stepping on to an aeroplane. Hippies had the best music, the best drugs, the best sex. A humorous travel book encompassing the hippy trail of the Sixties and written by the author of NO SHITTING IN THE TOILET.
Really funny without ever going over-the-top to exaggerate situations. Quite an entertaining journey in which Mr Moore seemed to have fulfilled his ambition to retrace the hippy trail - filled with uproarious encounters specially that English teacher on the way to Prague and on the China-Laotian border and also some quite poignant ones like those in Bosnia.... I was particularly interested in the chapters on the Balkans. He must look back on that part of his journey and think how utterly mad it was. Personally, I can think of very little less appealing than living out of a backpack for six straight months while travelling on a hell of a lot of buses, because frankly?
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His experiences range from delightful to frustrating. Eight months, and 25 countries later, he finally reaches home, Sydney. Peter Moore, I adore you--too bad I'm already married! Details his true attempt to return home to Australia from England using no planes. He's witty and brilliant, all his travel books are gems.
Every traveller knows that such hospitality often comes with a cost of course. For the next few days Mirindi was my guide around the sights of Tirane, including Skanderbeg Square again, where this picture was taken. To mark the evening as the very special event that it was, they all signed a beer coaster and gave it to me as a memento. Right now, we have a 2-to-1 Matching Gift Campaign, tripling the impact of every donation. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use.
That book saw me travel overland from London to Sydney, a journey that was full of hair-raising adventures but also incredible kindness and hospitality. I've picked up a few Peter Moore books in my time but I've always put them down again somewhat disappointed. "The Wrong Way Home" is a good example of this. This book just wasn't my cup of tea, but I know other people have enjoyed it. This is the story of the author, Peter Moore, who decides to travel home from London to Sydney without stepping on an aeroplane. Not his best book that I have read yet but still good.
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