Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe |
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 | The first time Bill Bryson travelled around Europe was in 1972, when everyone on the flight from America was a hippy and his seatmate asked him if he had found Jesus ("Uh, no, it's a quarter", responds Bryson, retrieving a coin from the floor). The following year he returns in the company of his friend Katz - "the best thing that could be said for travelling abroad with Katz was that it spared the rest of America from having to spend the summer with him".
Neither Here Nor There is mainly about an extensive journey through Europe twenty years later, from Hammerfest where he waits sixteen days to witness the Northern Lights, to Istanbul; where he decides it's time to return home after his wife informs him his chidren are addressing all grown men as daddy. There are also reminiscences back to the Katz journey, which are some of the funniest pages in the book.
This is a real "traveller's book", with all the tedium, grotty hotel rooms, communication problems, unidentifiable food and ... read more.
Written by Bill Bryson.
Published 02 April 1998.
Published by Black Swan.
rrp £8.99.
304 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0552998060
ISBN-13: 9780552998062 | |
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