Humourous Travel

[woodelf]

Apart from Bill Bryson's books and Harry Thompson's 'Penguins stopped play', can anyone suggest any other humourous travel guides or travelogues, either UK and/or worldwide? Ta Muchly.

[T&S]

Stuart Maconie "Adventure on the High Teas", "Pies and Prejudice" are both highly recommended.

[emeritus]

McCarthys Bar by Pete McCarthy about his travels in Ireland

[woodelf]

Many Thanks Both for taking the time, but I think I should have just made the category for worldwide, rather than UK (I think), so that a beginner to foreign travel can widen his outlook...but Thanks anyway.

[mrs_overall]

Hi woodelf, hope tha's keeping all reet (big smile)
Can I recommend some books for your?
1. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart (travels aroudn Russia)

2.The Longest Crawl by Ian Marchant (travels in the UK)

3.On a Hoof and a Prayer by Polly Evans (travels in Argentina)

I found all these travel books really funny tha knows!

[mrs_overall]

Oh, another one I loved is
The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

A nostalgic book about holidays in the UK in the 1970's

[woodelf]

Hey up Mrs_overall, how's tha doin' thissen? I hope tha's feelin' a heck of a lot better than thee were afore. Nah then, Many Thanks for thy book recommenders and the two foreign ones sound just reet for what is needed, so I'll have missen a look and see what they're all abaht! Now thee tek care of thissen and get better soon...and for all those who dunner know what we're on abaht, then hecky thump and ee bah gum to thee all...in a nice way of course...smile.

[jno]

I remember Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley being very good. Not exactly a travel book, he's an anthropologist who goes to study an African tribe only to find they think he's crazy. (True story.)

[Prudentia]

'muddle england' by lady eyre of hassop

[woodelf]

Many Thanks jno and prudentia...I've got quite a shelf full now, unless....?

[Khandro]

Eric Newby's 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and several others by him.

[woodelf]

Many Thanks Khandro...would these be a bit dated or would they still hold true today?

[Whickerman]

you'll be hard-pressed to beat Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawkes - one damned funny diary of a travel around the coast of Ireland hitchhiking with a fridge in tow - for a bet. I'm up to my 5th copy - people I loan it to loan it to others, I never see it again!

[lorri24601]

Like whickerman, i was going to suggest "Round Ireland with a fridge" by Tony Hawkes, he also did one called "Playing the Moldovans at tennis" which is equally as good.

[sandyRoe]

Travels with my donkey. One man and his ass on a pilgrimage to Santiago. Tim Moore. Some laugh out loud sections, a really funny book.

[mike11111]

"One man and his ass"
That was enough to startt me laughing, without even buying the book.