Tales From The Big Yellow: Unreliable Memoirs of a Tour Guide

Its the late 1970s and Simon Tobin knows he wants a life of adventure after he finishes college in England. But when he answers an ad in the paper to become a Tour Guide hes not sure what hes getting into.Get your shit together have a shave and a haircut buy some clothes that dont make you look like a stupid hippy his boss tells him after the training trip around Europe. You take the first three-weeker leaving on Monday. Good luck youve got potential. Dont fuck up.Travelling in a coach painted with a big yellow sun across Europe through Russia and down to North Africa until the early 80s Tobes survives both an earthquake in Montenegro and the traffic in Paris. He runs an Austrian ski resort and converts a chateau in the Beaujolais. He smuggles jeans in Russia lunches (and lunches and lunches...) in Tuscany and drinks tea at sunrise in the Moroccan desert.Through it all he makes friends - food-and-drink loving Italians Austrian skiers and a vast network of young down-to-earth Aussie and Kiwi travelers and tour guides all with outlandish nicknames. Tobes life of adventure turns out to be above all a life of friendship and fun giving him more than a few Big Yellow tales to tell.