Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the most outrageous, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps even more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. On layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam, and is forced to explain tampons to luggage-searching soldiers in Kashmir: "They're for ladies. Bleeding ladies." A self-admittedly bumbling tourist, Halliday shares with razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effect the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell.
This second edition includes an updated foreword.
- ISBN10 1580056024
- ISBN13 9781580056021
- Publish Date 25 August 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Seal Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English