Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this bizarre and witty.
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About the Book
How to React When Woken at 3am by Drunk Argentinian Backpackers While Staying in a Youth Hostel and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips
by Simon Yeats
Published 10 September 2024
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
Page Count: 286
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Book 4 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read when arriving at Paris airport so they laugh so freaking hard that it will intimidate any suspicious characters looking to abduct them and sell them into the human trafficking game.
Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this bizarre and witty. Australian ex-pat Simon Yeats shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as Mongol hordes in the 12th century.
From how to negotiate getting abused in Los Angeles when you will only drive at 5 miles/hr., to what to do when locked out of your hotel room in your underwear, to the emotions of attempting the world’s second highest bungee when you have a pathological fear of heights, to how to deal with the trials and tribulations of staying in a youth hostel with travelers who have no respect for the other guests.
Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for you to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to empty your bank account, get squeezed sitting in a middle airline seat, or deal with border security at the Ukraine/Russia boundary.
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Excerpt
That was not one of my three options.
Although, if this is Jack the Ripper, he seems to have gotten well ahead of himself with his raping technique.
It is Con’s work mate.
“What the hell happened?” I stammer.
The guy is barely holding himself upright as he sways in front of me. “I am locked out of my room.”
Well, that would only be a minor inconvenience to anyone if they then hadn’t gone to the trouble of disrobing themselves. But there are no clothes in the hallway. It seems Con’s mate had just walked out of his room naked.
“Where are your clothes?” I ask.
“I had a shower, and I opened the door to get out of the bathroom and it led me to the hallway.”
“You didn’t wrap yourself in a towel?”
“I was looking for the towel,” he indignantly responds. “Let me show you,” and he forcefully grabs my arm and pulls me down the hallway to his locked hotel room door. “See, I am locked out. I can’t get in.”
With all the not quite fully awake/not really too drunk excitement of thinking that there had to be a more radical explanation as to why Con’s highly inebriated mate could be so careless as to walk out of his front door thinking he was opening the bathroom door, I did not think to grab my room key.
Now there are two of us standing in the hallway, locked out of our rooms.
One of us in his undies. The other one in his birthday suit.
Both of us are now frantic.
About the Author
Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.
With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.
No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.
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These seem like fun, true story books. I want to read them all. I think any young people who want to travel, these would really come in hand.
This looks like a very interesting book.
I enjoy nonfiction and this is an interesting memoir.