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Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales

Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales


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About the Book

These personal stories collected from a lifetime of travel will transport the reader from country to country across the world in an immersive reading experience. Spanning many countries and many years, each tale is brought back to life in a careful reconstruction of time, place and personal encounter using the fragments of memory that we all take away from our most treasured travel experiences.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents   Introduction 13   First Encounters   In the Italian Thick of It 20  Catching up with Relatives 26  How I Met Your Father 32  Beware of Vipers! 39 T he Reluctant Climber 46  Seeing Red in the Canary Islands 56    Food for Thought  Mix-Mix to Go 60  A Taste of French Cake 63  Lessons in English for Gastronomic Purposes 70  Gelato—As It Once Was 78 T able Manners for Eating Noodles 82  Blushing Onions and Therapy by the Sea 85    A Touch of the Scary  Something to Write Home About 90  A Ride into the Shadow Underworld  92 Night Fright 97  A Walk on the Wild Side 103    Crossings  Borderland 110  A Case of Fishy Synchronicity 116  Footloose in the Jungle 124  A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Bay of Biscay 130  Travels in the Company of P38 134  Rights of Passage 139    Searching and Finding  A Long Shot 144  The Dance of the Scorpions 150  Tongue-tied in the Land of Magyars 153  Where Europe Ends 160  Displaced on the Spanish Plain 164  The Lure of a Landscape 167    A Chance Occurrence  The Arrival 174  Mischievous Gods and a Serpentine Tangle 180  The Misadventure of a Goose 186  Lovestruck in Leningrad 192  The Mystery of a Nudge in the Night 198    Marking Time  31 204  The Last Wood Turner 211  On Crocodile Beach 214  Oracle 218  Musical Postcards from India 223  Birdsong 230  Senior Moments in Segovia 233    Maps  Japan and South Korea 236  India 237  Spain and Canary Islands 238  Mexico and Costa Rica 239  Italy 240  England 241  Borneo and East Malaysia 242  Greece, Crete, Turkey, Egypt and Israel 243  France 244  Malaysia 245  Indonesia 246  Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary 247  Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia 248 

About the Author :
Julie Watson is a retired university teacher and Fellow Emeritus, who now lives on the Isle of Wight. She is the author of two books. The most recent is Travel Takeaways, a collection of stories from her travels around the world. When not writing she spends her time kayaking on the western Yar, wildlife watching and teaching refugees. She lives with a feline companion called Marmite.

Review :
From her “first independent trip as an unworldly eighteen-year-old to work as a waitress in the French Alps” in 1974, through to epic South American adventures, and “senior moments in Segovia”, Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales spans decades — and the globe — as Julie Watson shares personal memories of remarkable travel experiences. With each tale presenting a short, perfectly-formed snapshot of the author’s life in travel, Travel Takeawaysis perfect for dipping into to enjoy a spot of armchair adventuring, somewhat akin to settling down in your favourite armchair to be regaled by fascinating stories from around the world. Whether recounting jungle adventures while teaching in Brunei, or sharing memories of witnessing the magic of nature in Costa Rica, the author’s voice rings with authenticity as she evokes places, people and atmosphere in exhilarating detail. With each tale opening with an arresting image, or stop-you-in-your-track dialogue that transports readers to a place or situation (“I should never have listened to him in the first place”; “Be careful not to roll off the edge”; “A conspiracy of flies clusters on the quayside”), it’s impossible not to be hooked.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781913894085
  • Publisher: Beachy Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Beachy Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Sub Title: Around the World in Forty Tales
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1913894088
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 304 gr


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