🏞Watch Out for Pirates: Tales From a Travel Writer’s Life (book #3) by Jules Brown.

Watch Out for Pirates: Tales From a Travel Writer’s Life by Jules Brown

3.5 stars

Watch Out for Pirates: Tales From a Travel Writer’s Life (book #3). Jules Brown has been a travel writer for more than thirty years—he has a lot of mileage under his belt and he’s been to places all over the world.

This series contains anecdotes from places Jules has been to, his seemingly random musings about people and places. For instance, the chapter on New York is all about getting tipping right. The chapter set in Portugal looks back at the fairy-tale dream of a home in idyllic rural Portugal and compares it to the harsh reality with not even a comedic builder or eccentric neighbour to boost the experience. 

Amusing snippets written in a semi-biographical style. Each chapter offers one or two points to take away, but, as the title suggests, it’s a book of entertaining tales rather than a travel guide.

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Book description

“Left at 11am to go pirate-hunting.” Wait, what?

When Jules reads his grandfather’s diary, he discovers he’s not the first in his family with travel stories to tell.

Looking for his own adventures, Jules crosses continents while learning the ropes as a Rough Guide writer. And because travel is unpredictable, there’s no knowing what his next trip will bring.

Surviving the outback, drunk by breakfast time in Montenegro, asked to sing at a Sicilian wedding, appearing as Santa in a Portuguese school – the life of a travel writer can take a wrong turn now and again.

From scary lizards to Highland warriors, it seems that pirates are not the only things to worry about when you’re born to travel.

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