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'A brilliant read, a book I simply couldn't put down. You become part of the adventure and all its ups and downs, and the book is bloody funny. It's like a cross between Ted Simon and Flann O'Brien - - a cracker!' --Hairy Biker Dave Myers
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'You see, for me, travel is like love. When I go away for a few days, every six weeks or so, it gives me that feeling you get when you fall in love: when you wake every morning with a song in your heart, fling back the shutters and go walking through the rain-washed streets with a spring in your step' - Geoff Hill. Equipped with notebook, pen, boundless enthusiasm and a knack of meeting the most interesting local characters, Geoff Hill travels the world in this collection of the very best of his travel writing. With his taste for the absurd - yodelling, llama trekking and dormouse hunting - and his sense of adventure - Saharan charity treks fuelled by Tayto crisps, microlight trips to the Shetlands and wolf-hunting in Sweden - this is no ordinary travel guide. Hold on tight and brace yourself for an unforgettable trip - from Azerbaijan to Zagreb, via China, Donegal, Romania, Tunisia and everywhere in between.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I so enjoyed this book.
First of all, it's hilarious. If you like to go to sleep with a smile on your face I suggest you keep it on your bedside table - you could open it at random and find something to chuckle at.
But (and it's a big but), these travel pieces, while funny, are not gratuitously funny, by which I mean a)that they are written with great elegance and economy of style, and b)that for Geoff Hill, humour seems to be simply the natural conduit for the important business of communicating his obvious (and infectious) passion for travel; for getting to the beating heart of the places he finds himself and the people he meets; and above all, for leaving us better informed. As in his previous books, political comment, historical reference and general observation may be dispensed with a spoonful of the author's quirky and irreverent sense of humour, but they aren't diluted by it. So: `..the amazing thing about China, as Mao found, is that there are so many people in it you can remove millions of them without anyone noticing.' Or a typically Hill observation on the habits of Italian motorists: `Simultaneously engaged in a stormy marriage with the throttle pedal and a passionate affair with the brake, Italian drivers view pedestrians with the same sort of hungry scorn that lions view three-legged wildebeest. Hardly worth the effort, but may as well kill them anyway.'
For me, particularly in non-fiction, and particularly when you are asked to share the author's experiences - to come along for the ride - it helps if you get the feeling you would like them if you met them; and Geoff Hill comes across as a most congenial travelling companion.
My recommendation: a strong Buy!
First of all, it's hilarious. If you like to go to sleep with a smile on your face I suggest you keep it on your bedside table - you could open it at random and find something to chuckle at.
But (and it's a big but), these travel pieces, while funny, are not gratuitously funny, by which I mean a)that they are written with great elegance and economy of style, and b)that for Geoff Hill, humour seems to be simply the natural conduit for the important business of communicating his obvious (and infectious) passion for travel; for getting to the beating heart of the places he finds himself and the people he meets; and above all, for leaving us better informed. As in his previous books, political comment, historical reference and general observation may be dispensed with a spoonful of the author's quirky and irreverent sense of humour, but they aren't diluted by it. So: `..the amazing thing about China, as Mao found, is that there are so many people in it you can remove millions of them without anyone noticing.' Or a typically Hill observation on the habits of Italian motorists: `Simultaneously engaged in a stormy marriage with the throttle pedal and a passionate affair with the brake, Italian drivers view pedestrians with the same sort of hungry scorn that lions view three-legged wildebeest. Hardly worth the effort, but may as well kill them anyway.'
For me, particularly in non-fiction, and particularly when you are asked to share the author's experiences - to come along for the ride - it helps if you get the feeling you would like them if you met them; and Geoff Hill comes across as a most congenial travelling companion.
My recommendation: a strong Buy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with other Jeff Hill books this one is littered with both accurate observations, wonderfully dry humour and the opinions of a lacomic Ulsterman who has seen enough of this mad world to have a valid point on most of it, (oh and the odd irreverant point that the local tourist boards may not agree with too.)
Another side splitting yet informative book with a dash of Ulster whit and motorcycle positivity, I even forgave him his Harley leanings as his pub reccomendations make up for that
A cracking read, makes Bill Bryson seem almost boring!
Biker or traveller, i defy you not to love this book
Another side splitting yet informative book with a dash of Ulster whit and motorcycle positivity, I even forgave him his Harley leanings as his pub reccomendations make up for that
A cracking read, makes Bill Bryson seem almost boring!
Biker or traveller, i defy you not to love this book
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