This book contains hilarious travel stories on a variety of themes including food, people, transport, accommodation, etc. These stories are written by well-known comedians and travel writers plus previously unpublished authors. It includes some contributions from the competition by Lonely Planet, following previous successful anthology publishing - "The Kindness of Strangers" and "A House Somewhere". Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, these experiences can give birth to our most profound travel lessons and illuminations, and our most memorable - and hilarious travel stories Lonely Planet assembles and celebrates here 25 such stories in its new literary travel anthology the stories include globe-girdling tales that run the gamut from flat-tyre safaris to loss-of-face follies, eccentric expats to mind-boggling repasts, wrong trains taken, to agreements mistaken, romance gone awry to planes that shouldn't fly.
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