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THE WRONG WAY HOME is the hilarious account of this life-enhancing Grand Tour by means of bone-rattling bus rides, furnace-like trains and exorbitantly-priced taxis. Along the way, Moore took in the world's most expensive disco in Albania; the bombed out villages and military checkpoints of Croatia; the opium fields of Laos; student riots in Jakarta, and an all-night beach rave on a small island in southern Thailand. He describes the places - and the people he encountered there - with a mixture of awe, irreverence and self-deprecation. Striking a chord with all those travellers, young and old, who have stood where Moore stood, THE WRONG WAY HOME entertains and alarms those of us who love to read about off-the-beaten-track travel adventures but would never be fool enough to pack our rucksacks and go. I'm making my way through Peter Moore's collection of travel writing, as this is the kind of light reading that I can pick up put down and pick up again that is perfect for me while I am traveling.
With woefully inadequate funds and little hope of actually making it through such notorious hot-spots as the Balkans, Iran and Afghanistan, Peter – never one to err on the side of caution – followed the trail overland to the East over the next eight months and through twenty-five countries. When Peter Moore announced he was going to travel from London to his home in Sydney without boarding an aeroplane he was met with a resounding Why? The answer was perversity and a severe case of hippie envy - hippies had the best music, they had the best drugs, they had the best sex. In 1994 Peter decides to travel from London to Sydney without flying, and on a shoestring budget. He was following the ol' hippie trail from the '60s.
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If you are looking for a book that combines travel writing with dry humor, than look no further than the work of this Aussie backpacker. I came across his name while traveling myself - I asked one of my fellow travelers if she could recommend a funny travel writer, and she suggested Moore. In this book the author sets off from London at some point in the late 1990s, determined to get home to Sydney by an overland route and without getting on a plane. He has an interest in checking out the old hippie trail as well. Most travel writers inform us about the culture, history, cuisine, and people of distant lands as they move across a landscape, getting into adventures, meeting locals, and sharing their knowledge and perceptions.
Really funny without ever going over-the-top to exaggerate situations. Quite an entertaining journey in which Mr Moore seemed to have fulfilled his ambition to retrace the hippy trail - filled with uproarious encounters specially that English teacher on the way to Prague and on the China-Laotian border and also some quite poignant ones like those in Bosnia.... I was particularly interested in the chapters on the Balkans. He must look back on that part of his journey and think how utterly mad it was. Personally, I can think of very little less appealing than living out of a backpack for six straight months while travelling on a hell of a lot of buses, because frankly?
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Inspired by the hippies of the ’60s, I set off from the UK to see if it was still possible to travel overland from London to Australia. He is a Vespa enthusiast and his 2005 book Vroom with a View and 2007 book Vroom by the Sea feature trips through Italy taken on vintage Italian motorscooters. Australian writer's story of traveling completely by surface (and there are several points where he's wishes he'd flown!) from London to Sydney.
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I love to travel and I thought I would love this book but it was lacking in any real insight or wisdom. Just kind of a travel log about an interesting trip. Don't buy this because it might be a Bill Bryson... Bryson does a good book, with his astute descriptions of people he meets, and places he sees. This gives good descriptions of places that he sees, but there's virtually no people involved. Which is a shame, because if this self-styled hippie actually bothered to speak to other people, it would be quite a good book.
The "short way" home still takes 24 hours, and that's more than enough for me. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The seller has not specified a postage method to United States. The account of an eight-month trip over land and sea from London to Sydney by a young Australian.
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Peter Moore’s first travelogue details his overland journey from London to Sydney as he follows in the hippy trail popularised during the 1960’s and 70’s. There were moments when I wanted to applaud Moore for his choice to travel home overland, and there were times when he did monumentally stupid things and I wanted to slap some sense into him. There were moments that were totally mindblowing because 1994 doesn't seem like THAT long ago, and yet so much about the world has changed. And there were moments that made me go "Thank Christ we don't have to do that any more". Yes, buying international phone cards to be able to contact your family, I'm looking at you.
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Moore takes a different route - he does some of the above, but his main intention is to make the reader laugh as he shares not only his travels but his comments on pop music, the absurdities and hassles of life on the road, and some of the odd characters he runs into. Peter Moore is an itinerant hobo who is lucky enough to be able to support his insatiable travel habit through writing. He is the author of four acclaimed travel books - The Wrong Way Home, The Full Montezuma, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted (shortlisted for the WHSMith People's Choice Travel Book Award) and Vroom with a View as well as the classic alternative travel guide, No Shitting in the Toilet. When he's not on the road living out of his senselessly overweight backpack, he alternates between London and Sydney with his collection of souvenir plastic snowdomes and Kinder Surprise toys. He is the author of several acclaimed travel books - The Wrong Way Home, The Full Montezuma, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted (shortlisted for the WHSmith People's Choice Travel Book Award) and Vroom with a View as well as the classic alternative travel guide, No Shitting in the Toilet. When he's not on the road living out of his senselessly overweight backpack, he alternates between London and Sydney with his collection of souvenir plastic snow domes and Kinder Surprise toys.
A fun, quick read with good, brisk writing and interesting observations. I agree with previous reviewers that it's fine to skip chapters you're not interested in; it's easy to get back into the book at any point. I loved the music recommendations at the beginning of each chapter. This was the first journey I took with Peter Moore, and it was a hell of a trip.... It was everything you want to have when you go on a nine months trip around the world. OK, so China was a bit long, but it's a big country after all!!!
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