This is Not a Holiday

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] If you’ve never lain in a shower stall ejecting vile liquids from both ends of your digestive tract, you’ve not lived! Precede that with eight hours of vomiting out of a Nepalese night bus window and you’ve got a great anecdote for your friends back home/prospective partner/criminally underrated blog. I for one would never have given up those few days of discomfort for an unsoiled memory – every facet of travel contributes to the

[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] Admittedly, an inflatable sleeping mat falls further into the category of camping equipment than travelling equipment, but I always take one on long trips because you just never know where you might end up for the night: bus stations; train stations; hard wooden shelves masquerading as beds; the rough decks of cargo ferries traversing Lake Malawi, among sacks of cement, iron girders and piles of snoring African children. In addit