Brian Thacker confesses all as he reveals the best (and worst) of 20 trips as a tour leader around Europe. He tells how he fed passengers horse meat spag bol, hamburgers made from breakfast cereal and roosters' testicles; how he left a passenger standing by the side of a motorway in France for 3 hours in his underwear clutching a purple toothbrush and how, along the way, he lost his driver, his cook, his bus, ten brightly coloured canal bikes, a large church and eventually his patience.
Brian Thacker Knihy
Brian Thacker píše s humorem a nadhledem o svých cestovatelských zážitcích. Jeho díla, často inspirovaná vlastními dobrodružstvími a setkáními s rozmanitými kulturami, se vyznačují bystrým pozorováním a vtipným komentářem. Thackerův styl je přístupný a zábavný, což čtenářům umožňuje prožít exotická místa a neobvyklé situace z pohodlí domova. Jeho knihy nabízejí jedinečný pohled na svět očima ostříleného cestovatele.
Kooky festivals of all shapes and sizes exist around the world, as illustrated by this humorous travelogue that recounts the dozen most outrageous celebrations the author discovered on his six-month, six-country adventure. In search of the most unusual and wildest festivities, the author was pelted with beans, amazed by giant snow cows, stampeded in a temple full of men wearing nothing but "nappies," befriended by alien abductees, and much more while attending a Hogmanay in Scotland, a Tomato Festival in Ripley, Tennesee, a Bean Throwing Festival in Tokyo, and a Vodou Festival in Haiti. The side-splitting stories will inspire readers to attend—or create—peculiar festivals of their own, and on a more serious note, explore and appreciate other cultures.
Trackliste: 1. Die Idee klang genial, 2. Chile: Meine Couch stellt sich tot, 3. äRegeln und Einschränkungen: Sei nett!ä, 4. Ein richtiges Familienfest, 5. Brasilien: äIch bin die coolste carioca in Rioä, 6. Mariana strahlte: äEinkaufenä, 7. Himmelhoch jauchzend und zu Tode betrübt, 8. Island: äScheisse, ist das kalt!ä, 9. Der Gestank von faulen Eiern, 10. Auf der Suche nach isländischen Schönheitsgöttinnen, 11. Ranziger Hai und andere Leckereien, 12. Kenia: Willkommen in Nairobbery!, 13. Die Couch in der Hütte, 14. Zwischen Giraffen und Zebras, 15. Philippinen: Malate, das Künstlerviertel von Manila, 16. Gefährliche Karaoke, 17. Ich habe keine Couch. Ist das schlimm?, 18. Die Traum-Couch: 10 von 10 Punkten, 19. Ein Absacker zum Abschied.