Do You Want the Shortcut or the Scenic Route?

Lucky or unlucky? – You decide!

This engaging book chronicles the true-life adventures, and misadventures, experienced by the author and his wife during their global travels that sometimes did not go to plan!

Readers will be entertained by a spectrum of stories including a rendezvous with an amorous Frenchman, a few scary moments in the presence of wild beasts, general holiday mishaps, hell raising motor journeys as well as floating holiday adventures, to name but a few. This page turning travel memoir will pull your emotions in all directions from ‘hysterics’ to ‘shock’.

The author strives to provide an accurate depiction of the events and the fascinating people the dynamic duo met along the way. All information is as accurate as possible and as such is based upon meticulous notes taken at the various times.

Tony James is a retired police officer who lives with his wife and son in the northeast of England. He enjoys travelling, writing, playing musical instruments and reading. This publication is his debut non-fiction book and is based upon actual events that occurred during travels with his wife following their marriage in 1971.