Tales of a Gypsy Hotelier

Tales of a Gypsy Hotelier is a collection of unique travel adventure stories and letters home detailing the author's experiences while visiting 43 countries living and working in 7 countries and managing hotels in Kenya; Zanzibar and Arusha Tanzania; St. Lucia Caribbean; and Tonga South Pacific. Several stories are inspirational others illustrate the unimaginable difficulties that can arise from living in undeveloped countries; some are romantic but all are gut-wrenchingly honest and from the heart. Inside stories range from a Thelma & Louise style adventure driving across Tanzania twice; sales trips to Australia and Martinique; seated next to a young soldier with an AK-47 strapped on and ready heading north on a Kenyan bus as defense from getting held-up by Somalian thieves; wearing a dirndl at the Front Desk of a 4-star spa hotel in the Black Forest Germany; sailing to a hotel job interview on an Arabian Dhow off Lamu Kenya with stoned Captain Happy; firing cooks in St. Lucia and Tonga; being car-jacked in Tanzania twice; cooking competitions on a sailboat in the Grenadines; following love into the bush of Tanzania: encountering the elusive orange fish known as Nemo and stunning soft corals in Fijian waters; tailor-made dresses in China and Ghana; circumnavigating Skiathos Greece; Hotel Consulting and Fire Dancing in Tonga; a Maasai Wedding in our garden in Arusha TZ; to the ultimate exotic destination - the spice island of Zanzibar. People often lament that there just don't seem to be many good travel books available these days yet a huge demand exists including from armchair travellers. So sit back with a cuppa or something stronger. And read on.