Taken from the back cover:
"Not all Spaniards are Goat Tossers, not all Portuguese are Penis Cake Eaters and not all Frenchmen are Arse Blowers. But J.R. Daeschner knows quite a few who are.

In Eurotripping, the American writer picks up where he left off with True Brits and crosses the Channel in search of Europe's most surreal traditions. From the far west of Ireland to the continental divide in Istanbul, he ventures where few foreigners have gone before, witnessing events such as the Rigor Mortis Procession in Galicia, Firedancing Festivals in Greek Macedonia and celebrations in honour of England's patron saint in the heart of the EU. Along the way, he's inducted into the Order of the Priceless Sardine in the Dordogne and meets countless characters, including a German detective turned 'love spy', the last of the Irish matchmakers, a Sicilian coprophile and a gay Turkish 'Bear'.

Whether it's the furore over the camp following for Oil Wrestling in Turkey or the controversy surrounding the Dutch 'Santa' and his black sidekick, J.R. Daeschner finds that many of these centuries-old events reveal surprising insights into the issues facing Europe today.

Eurotripping: if you think you know Europe, think again."

here's the link to the book online.

this is a replacement copy that i bought today, since my very first attempt to start a bookring with it was unsuccessful.. the book got lost before even reaching it's first reader :( I hope this time will be better than the previous one.
Usual rules apply to this bookring too. This is journal the book once you receive it so that we'll know that it has traveled safely, then make a new journal entry letting us all know what you thought of it and finally make release notes when letting it on it's way to the next reader. Try to stick with the book for let's say a month maximum, and in case you'll need more time with it, PM me and let me know about it so that i won't consider the book stalled.
So, starting all over again, the list of participants is as follows:

1. sofiathereader, Athens (Greece)
2. ZlatkoGR, Thessaloniki (Greece)
3. Silver-Greece, Thessaloniki (Greece)
4. quino-salonika, Thessaloniki (Greece)
5. elpis, Larisa (Greece)
6. sismografos, Athens (Greece)
7. vainilla79, Madrid (Spain)
8. Stoxasths, Larisa (Greece) <---the book is here!
9. back to me

RELEASE NOTES:

the book was sent this morning to sofiathereader. My very first attempt to start a bookring with the first copy was fruitless so i hope this copy will reach it's destination. I'm crossing my fingers to that..

Finally in my hands! I'll start reading it right now

RELEASE NOTES:

Well...my english disappionted me one more time! I couldn't finish it but I liked it a lot. I gave it to ZlatcoGR who is the next one!

It can propably be a release for the trevel release challenge. I hope it!!!

I forgot to journal it! With the Film Festival and all, my mind is not very focused!

I didn't started it yet and I think I don't have the time or the mental stability to read it (or any book for that matter) but I will keep it for another week or so. Maybe I'm better until then.

If not, I will give it to quino-salonika or Silver-Greece, here in Thessaloniki...

No. I couldn't read it. So Silver-Greece is the next...

ZlatkoGR gave me the book yesterday and I'm going to strat reading it immediately. Hope to be more lucky than the other two readers :P

I've finished it at last. Sorry for holding it for sooooooooo long. It's a well-written book, which describes in a very funny manner some of the custms in Europe. It's an alternative travel suggestion! I really enjoyed it. I'll give it to the next on the list as soon as I see him

i took it today from silver-greece, it looks very interesting

i am terribly sorry for this delay, i was so busy with many wird stuff..!
it was funny and i got a lot of information for those countries. i did' t knew for the snake nasty thing in corfu! really bliaaah!

thank you pepita, i am SO SORRY about the delay!
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it' s on its way for larisa, elpis!

arrived today, it will have to wait a little to finish an other bookring that i'm currently reading.
thanks quino-salonica

a book completely different from what i have read so far, interesting. and i was surprised by the fact that phallus fests are held and in other places in Europe, Portugal for example. I thought that the fallus fest in a town near my home city (the Bourani fest at Tyrnavos) is a unique phenomenon!
thanks pepita-di-corfu

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Επιτέλους το πήρα από το ταχυδρομείο την τελευταία στιγμή. Τα έγραψα όλα αυτά αλλά το journal entry δεν ήρθε. Θα το στείλω στον επόμενο πολύ σύντομα.
Αν μη τι άλλο είναι ενδιαφέροντα. Αλλά τα ψ.τ. μου είναι πολύ πρόσφατα.

Τελικά αυτουνού του βιβλίου δεν του έμελε να ταξιδέψει στις Ευρώπες, προς το παρόν τουλάχιστον. Θα πάει στη Λάρισσα μια βόλτα να ξεκουραστεί από τα πέρα-δώθε και μετά θα επικοινωνήσουμε πάλι με εξωτερικό να δούμε τι θα γίνει.

Το βιβλίο ήρθε πριν λίγες μέρες με πολλά καλούδια παρέα. Σύντομα θα το ξεκινήσω. Ευχαριστώωωωω!!!