Travel Tales

<p>Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is a very funny book. It's a collection of Michael Brein's funniest travel accounts of the nearly 2000 interviews with travelers he has met in his own travels around the world over the last four decades. Although the typical travel stories collected in the books that make up the True Travel Tales series are ordinarily oriented towards safety and security in travel the very scary accounts of the risks and dangers in your travels and managing to often just barely to escape the tales are mainly of the fearful and dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers. Mostly these things will not happen to you. You'll read in the series plenty of examples of the real raw fear and very unsettling occasions that may pop up now and again in your travels.</p><p>This book Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad however pauses all of this. Instead of dealing with all sorts of true accounts of close calls and great escapes in connection with all sorts of travel situations including chases foiled kidnappings attacks roadblocks scary places trips from hell borders and police hitchhiking international spying smuggling and intrigue being in the wrong places at the wrong times terror attacks bandits Mexican standoffs airplane crashes accidents and mishaps white slavery robberies sexual harassment and assaults and more rather the series now pauses to simply make you laugh!</p><p>Instead of reading about the dangers and mishaps of others whereby you'll focus on and gain healthier respect of the true dangers and risks of travel and adventure... the point of Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad is purely and simply to make you laugh... to enjoy for all it's worth the many moments among two thousand or so travelers of their shared moments of smiles of chuckles of laughs and yes of belly laughs too. This is the time to enjoy those special moments that you yourself just happened to be the focus of or perhaps at the behest of others.</p><p>And make no mistake whereas some of these stories and laughs are so profoundly silly others are the stuff of keepsake memories. Many of the funny accounts of travelers in Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad are the tales of others; many are about us making others laugh instead yes... often at our own expense. And that makes them especially funny and memorable.</p><p>Yes indeed we are often the Crazy Stupit Scoundrels ourselves and I am one of you! I have often myself been the Idiot Abroad and I am all the happier and prouder for it! The travel tales told in Idiots Abroad are things we got away with and laughed about later. Pouring bubble bath in Trafalgar fountain in London getting away with things we'd dare not do at home even like eating critters in restaurants we'd never think of doing but for being overseas like daring to eat a pressed rabbit" (a roasted guinea pig in Peru) or Steak Tartare (raw horsemeat in France) or a potentially deadly poisonous fugu fish in Japan! Yep like trying to talk two Italian motorcycle cops out of giving you a speeding ticket — and succeeding! — yes... in Italy for God's sake (everybody speeds in Italy!).</p><p>Nope such adventures may not ever happen to you but assuredly something funny will! You'll laugh at these stories in Travel Tales: Idiots Abroad; you'll remember your own; you'll look forward to your next laughs overseas. And after you pick up this book read a tale or two and set it back down; you'll do so with a smile.</p>