Travelling in a foreign country is an incredibly tricky experience: it's like playing football with a bowling ball. It's like riding a bike with a bull elephant seal strapped to your back. The difficulties are not to be blinked at.
Do you know, for instance, the phrase for "please remove your hand from my bumbag" in Portuguese? Have you considered using airline refresher towels as an alternative to a cold shower in Russia? Are you able to politely refuse a meal of boiled goat offal in central Asia, without causing the villagers to swear a blood vengeance against you and your family? Well, you won't find the answers here!
What you will find within these pages are hundreds of answers to the many other perplexing problems and questions that travellers commonly face. It includes vital travel information, from time zones to currencies, languages to climate information, international dialling codes to travel-related websites, as well as space to include all the bad poetry you're planning to write.
And if that isn't enough, there are handy travel tips from the ABC's 'Race Around The World' contestants. These guys are experts in the art of the intense travel experience. They learnt the hard way so you won't have to.
