Travel Tales From Exotic Places Like Salford

By Julian Worker

Travel Tales from Exotic Places like Salford is a collection of 31 travel stories. These stories are part memoir and part travelogue. In some places travellers visit, the most memorable moments can be conversations with locals that provide a different perspective either on life in general or on one certain specific item such as a national stereotype.

I travel to see the world’s finest footballer play in front of his home crowd and I am rewarded by seeing him score a sumptuous free-kick. I visit the place in Turkey that will cause historians to rewrite history – would hunter-gatherers really know how to build walls, raise stone monoliths, and lay down waterproof floors? I am assured by a waiter that I won’t like turnip juice because of my nationality.

Travel broadens the mind and does away with some of your prejudices. I hope that in my travels I have managed to create a good impression both of myself and of people from my country. If I have removed some prejudices from other people’s minds then I have done some good.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mirador Publishing
• Release date: Jan 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781910104170

Julian Worker

“Little Known British Traditions” is my first book of humourous stories. One of my stories, Safari Sickness, has been recently published in an anthology called “Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana” by Travelers’ Tales. Other articles have recently appeared in the Expeditioner online e-zine, and in Americas the magazine of the Organization of American States. My travel stories have appeared in The Toronto Globe and Mail, The National Catholic Register, International Travel News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Southern Cross newspaper in South Africa. On the Internet my writing has appeared on the following websites: In the Know Traveller, Go World, Paperplates, Intravel, and GoNomad. I have also taken many photographs that have appeared in travel guides/articles by National Geographic, Thomas Cook, The Rough Guides, and The Guardian.

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Reviews for Travel Tales From Exotic Places Like Salford

[1randal-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

An interesting little book about the author's impressions of rather off-the-beaten-path places he has visited. It reminded me a lot of Bill Bryson's work. It's the kind of book where you don't have to read it cover to cover at one time. Rather you could pick it up and find a chapter that looked interesting and read it as you want.

[dmclane_4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The title says it all, the stories are travel tales from the author's experiences in the places she's visited. Some are interesting and some - not so much. That's to be expected as not everyone likes or is interested in everywhere. Although, I'm somewhat in awe of her experiences as I'm not as bold in choosing my travel adventures. Interesting read.