Before I had started reading this book, I had attempted to read another travel book that I unfortunately found lacking. So I was hopeful that this book was going to be a fun travel read as well as interesting, and I’m glad to say it was! Brian is a down to earth chap who enjoys [...]
Subtitle: ‘Tales of Couchsurfing a Continent’ This book was first published in 2009 and in it Fleur Britten takes us on a couch surfing adventure that covers China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The adventurer travels from Moscow to these destinations via the Trans-Siberian railway. Couchsurfing aka find a space for free to sleep for a night [...]
Dervla Murphy is a remarkable lady. This book covers her trips through Transylvania. Literally travelling with just the items she could carry, it was dangerous, tiring and at times simply amazing where and how she travelled through a region just a couple of weeks after the fall of Ceausesc’s long reign of power. The hospitality [...]