Not laugh-out-loud funny, but certainly empathetic-chuckle funny! As the blurb says, it is the book that all those Inter-Railers wish they'd written. At least, all those British Inter-Railers. Is Bill Bryson now more British than the Brits? The tale jogs along at a lively pace and (obviously) he's missed out the boring bits and maintains a high level of entertainment and self-deprecation through it all. It does skid to rather an abrupt halt, but you can understand why (as his home-sickness swings in). It reminds me of when I Inter-Railed to Istanbul... ah, the Polish coffee-smugglers in Hungary, the posh hotel in Constanca where they chucked a man out of his room so we could have it, and the blackmailing train conductors in Bulgaria...

To Draco1973

this has been passed to me by Flambard

If you are reading this thank you for finding this book and login in

Please read and enjoy then please rerelease it by either passing it on t a friend or just leaving it "in the wild" as you found, in a place of your choice

Thank you to whoever left the book in the waiting room in Leatherhead train station. I'm now in the middle of reading it on my long trip home, remembering trips to Europe of old.