No Cure for the Travel Bug - Godfrey, Michael Sn
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Experience some of the dangers, and the humour, found when traveling to parts that are often well off the beaten track followed by most tourists. The reader can thus feel that they have shared and participated in each of our travels, all from the safety of their armchair. No Cure for the Travel Bug follows on the success of the first book, Catch the Travel Bug. The journeys include trips to the Arctic (Baffin Island to find the narwhal and polar bears), China (provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, and Yunnan), India (Himachal Pradesh for lessons with the Dalai Lama and to Rajasthan with its…mehr

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Experience some of the dangers, and the humour, found when traveling to parts that are often well off the beaten track followed by most tourists. The reader can thus feel that they have shared and participated in each of our travels, all from the safety of their armchair. No Cure for the Travel Bug follows on the success of the first book, Catch the Travel Bug. The journeys include trips to the Arctic (Baffin Island to find the narwhal and polar bears), China (provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, and Yunnan), India (Himachal Pradesh for lessons with the Dalai Lama and to Rajasthan with its palaces and havelis), Indonesia (Bali, Krakatoa, the Spice Islands of Maluku and Sulawesi), Korea, Laos (a slow boat to Luang Prabang), Macau, several trips to Malaysias Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Taiwan, and Thailand. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different trip. Cover photo: ChinaDawn over the Three Gorges.
Autorenporträt
As well as studying and working in the United Kingdom, the author spent the majority of his working life overseas, including in years in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Oman, the UAE, Mauritius and Malaysia. This is probably where he caught the travel bug. He retired in Malaysia in 1999, and enjoys travelling with Lian, his Malaysian wife.