How not to travel the world
Subtitle: adventures of a disaster-prone backpacker
By: Lauren Juliff
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781849537278
Subjects: Travel; Voyages and travels; Anecdotes; Women travelers; Man-woman relationships
Description: I had no life experience, zero common sense and had never eaten rice. I suffered from debilitating anxiety, was battling an eating disorder and had just had my heart broken. I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself. Instead, Lauren's travels were full of bad luck and near-death experiences. Over the space of a year, she was scammed and assaulted; lost teeth and swallowed a cockroach. She fell into leech-infested rice paddies, was caught up in a tsunami, had the brakes of her motorbike fail and experienced a very unhappy ending during a massage in Thailand. It was just as she was about to give up on travel when she stumbled across a handsome New Zealander with a love of challenges ...