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Backpacking: Not Just For The Young! Thailand : Cambodia : Vietnam : India
We have both always had a love of travel and over the years have got more adventurous in arranging it ourselves. What started as city breaks around Europe became excursions to parts of India whilst on holiday in Goa. One evening we had friends around who had returned from Vietnam and arranged the whole trip themselves, from then on we knew that was what we wanted to do whenever possible – so much more fun than browsing a brochure from the travel agents and following someone else’s plan.
We soon discovered that we enjoyed budget travel and the people you meet are of like mind, pretty care free and chatty but full of information, tips and ideas. Why should budget travel and backpacking be the sole preserve of the young! We are by no means old, Alison a smidgeon over 50, Wayne a little under but both of the age where we need the toilet in the middle of the night!
OPPORTUNITY ARRIVES…30th July 2015 and our employers go into administration, we both work there so for the first time in our lives neither of us have jobs. With our daughter being 21 and both sets of parents in good health was this our moment?
Over a glass of wine it was something we had often talked about, always so envious of people who we had met during our two weeks break who were travelling for months. Financially it was possible – but did we have the nerve?
What follows is the story of our travel as we wander through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and onto India.
We soon discovered that we enjoyed budget travel and the people you meet are of like mind, pretty care free and chatty but full of information, tips and ideas. Why should budget travel and backpacking be the sole preserve of the young! We are by no means old, Alison a smidgeon over 50, Wayne a little under but both of the age where we need the toilet in the middle of the night!
OPPORTUNITY ARRIVES…30th July 2015 and our employers go into administration, we both work there so for the first time in our lives neither of us have jobs. With our daughter being 21 and both sets of parents in good health was this our moment?
Over a glass of wine it was something we had often talked about, always so envious of people who we had met during our two weeks break who were travelling for months. Financially it was possible – but did we have the nerve?
What follows is the story of our travel as we wander through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and onto India.
183 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 19, 2022
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January 5, 2024
Great premise which I could relate to, being a middle aged back packer in Cambodia and Thailand whilst reading this volume..
However, I found the book to be verbose and over padded, with unnecessary information about flight options, passports, home insurance, breakfast options, flights and airports et al.
More detailed and poetic descriptions of the places visited, and less information about the number of beers drunk and the variations of "eggy" breakfasts consumed would have improved this read.
I found myself skipping through, regularly disappointed by the lack of descriptive prose, which was replaced by banality.
Having visited most of the Cambodian towns and sights mentioned in this book, I was shocked at how little the authors both failed to evoke the actual beauty and soul of locations.
Instead of a powerful written work to inform and inspire the traveller, this is, sadly, a deep dive into insipidness.
Poor grammar throughout. In the first couple of very short chapters alone a "was" was used where a "were" was required; an "is" where an "are" was needed: an ellipsis with four dots; "practise" instead of "practice"; an "etc etc." where "etc." was enough; two exclamation marks instead of one; misuse, or lack, of apostrophes in "Waynes dad"... Bad proof reading, perhaps, but more than a little irritating and off-putting, imho.
However, I found the book to be verbose and over padded, with unnecessary information about flight options, passports, home insurance, breakfast options, flights and airports et al.
More detailed and poetic descriptions of the places visited, and less information about the number of beers drunk and the variations of "eggy" breakfasts consumed would have improved this read.
I found myself skipping through, regularly disappointed by the lack of descriptive prose, which was replaced by banality.
Having visited most of the Cambodian towns and sights mentioned in this book, I was shocked at how little the authors both failed to evoke the actual beauty and soul of locations.
Instead of a powerful written work to inform and inspire the traveller, this is, sadly, a deep dive into insipidness.
Poor grammar throughout. In the first couple of very short chapters alone a "was" was used where a "were" was required; an "is" where an "are" was needed: an ellipsis with four dots; "practise" instead of "practice"; an "etc etc." where "etc." was enough; two exclamation marks instead of one; misuse, or lack, of apostrophes in "Waynes dad"... Bad proof reading, perhaps, but more than a little irritating and off-putting, imho.
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