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    What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You
    What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You
    What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You
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    What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You

    By Ben J West

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    This travel guide covers the style of travel where you’re more likely to find a dead rat rather than the morning paper waiting outside your hotel room. Travel never works out as planned and you need good advice. In this quirky guide you will find hints to deal with all but the most drastic travel disasters. At the very least you may get a chuckle while reading it from your Thai prison cell ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen J West
    Release dateAug 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301350599
    What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You
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    Ben J West

    Ben left the sterile world of community pharmacy to pursue his love of writing and adventure. Since then he has maintained an extensively read adventure blog while dirtying his boots worldwide. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and occasionally dusts off the white coat to sell medicines to an unsuspecting public, but mainly he just writes and plans the next big adventure. He is also easily distracte...

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      What the Travel Guides Won't Tell You - Ben J West

      What the Travel Guides Won’t Tell You

      Ben West

      What the Travel Guides Won’t Tell You

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Ben West

      Discover other titles by Ben at benjwest.com

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes:

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to smashwords.com to discover other works by the author. Thank you for your support.

      Table of contents

      Prologue

      Pre-travel

      Airports

      Plane flight

      Local travel

      Dress

      Hotels

      Local customs

      Food and health

      Camping overseas

      Travel companions

      Local inhabitants

      Post travel

      More by Ben

      About the author

      Prologue

      Before you cast off on that adventure of a lifetime, there are myriad things to consider: Roller luggage or backpack? Solo or group tours? Luxury or budget travel? Beach or mountain? However, one thing is certain: if you want to bring your sanity home you will need to pack a sense of humor alongside that passport.

      Adventure blogger Ben West has spent a total of 176.5 hours (just over ten full days) having his seat kicked and being farted on in planes. Furiously exploring, climbing and paintball paragliding, he is accused of causing most of the grey hairs in his family. Despite juggling more than nineteen currencies over the past three years, his math is still terrible ...

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