The Whingeing Pom Abroad

Take a trip with unreconstructed grouch Nick Sellens, a washed-up office worker with a foot odour problem, who’s finally doing his gap year twenty years too late. Chuckle at his efforts to fit in with the youngsters on the backpacker buses that motor up and down New Zealand and plough a furrow along the east coast of Australia, and find out if these tours really merit their reputation for drunken debauchery. If you are contemplating discovering the United States by train, be sure to heed the warnings set out so painfully in part three – the Amtrak experience. In between his droll and wittily written tales of world travel on a shoestring, you’ll pick up all sorts of trivia from Nick’s enthusiastic tangents into the history and culture of Australia, New Zealand and America.