false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172188766m/147657.jpg 147657 2 <div>Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. From taming the wild dog packs of Bali to requiring the services of a bonesetter in Sumatra, Ayun Halliday offers up the best of her itinerant foibles as examples of how not to travel abroad. For instance, on layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district&#8212;eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam,&#8212;and is forced to explain tampons, which she admits, &#8220;might have looked like white cotton bullets lined up in their box,&#8221; to soldiers in Kashmir&#8212;&#8220;They&#8217;re for ladies. Bleeding ladies.&#8221; A self-admittedly bumbling vacationer, Halliday shares&#8212;with razorsharp wit and to hilarious effect&#8212;the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell.</div> 142497 7 10 2003 No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (Adventura Books Series) total:629|5:91|4:202|3:212|2:95|1:29| 629 2118 888 148 2 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 05:45:37 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 02 09:30:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 19:55:30 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 21:05:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Mar 18 23:28:37 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 18 07:57:09 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 23:26:11 -0700 2008 I found myself bored... well, this is really my fault, cause I don't ever go anywhere exotic on vacation. Ayun goes on African safari's on a shoe string budget on her va...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Sep 15 08:08:32 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 08:41:52 -0700 2007
The writer is a hippie (or so she keeps telling...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jun 12 16:22:12 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 16:23:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Apr 27 10:05:11 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 10:08:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 17 12:13:01 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 12:14:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 16 03:52:59 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 03:55:49 -0800 2008 Three cups of Tea) and those written by people who really shouldn't be travelling (names withheld to protect the guilty). This is one of the latter. How miss Halliday survived to tell her tale...more...]]> 2 0 false true Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 15:05:10 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:17:42 -0700 2009 1
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