Australia, Morocco, and Thailand. Three True Travel Stories.

 
The book is called 'Australia, Morocco, and Thailand. Three True Travel Stories'. Not the catchiest of titles, I'll admit, but I want people to know what they're getting. Three true travel stories where yours truly was in peril. In three different places.

Here's the blurb:

 Jason Ward tells three true stories of fairly perilous travel.

While backpacking in Australia in his early twenties, he decides to give fruit picking a go. Even without the spiders, snakes, and a plague of locusts, things turn out pretty badly.

A trip into Morocco's Atlas Mountains with his girlfriend turns out less than romantic when flash floods threaten to wipe out the town. The only escape option is a van full of Berber tribesmen and a waterlogged road on the edge of a cliff.

After moving to the peaceful paradise of Thailand, Ward goes to a local pub near his Bangkok flat. That evening there is a military coup. In Bangkok. So why can't he see anything?

These stories are filled with humour and dollops of fear. Recommended for those who enjoy travel stories or just like reading about someone being mildly terrified in foreign countries. If you like travel stories please give them a go. Also, if you like them, please leave a review, they really help and I need to eat. If you don't like them, then move along, nothing to see here.
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For our American cousins:

Australia, Morocco, and Thailand. Three True Travel Stories is also available anywhere there is an Amazon. The book costs a pittance. Which is a bargain in any currency.

The Uneven Passage of Time

Here is a collection of three Science Fiction short stories. Think Twilight Zone with an emphasis on the way we travel through time. Here is a picture and the blurb.

 Time, famously, is relative. In this trio of short stories journalist and fiction writer Jason R. Ward looks at three individuals and their unorthodox journeys through time. These entertaining tales blend the themes of psychology and perception with classic science fiction.

Stephen Hawking once sent out dinner invitations to all future time travellers. No one turned up. But what if one had? In ‘A Date to Remember’ a young physicist is convinced he has worked out the secret to building a time travel device. Lacking the resources to construct the machine he sets a time and date for a meeting with his future self.

It is a truism that people remember the big events in life and forget the repetitive. For most people, their year skips by unnoticed, punctuated by birthdays, world events, big personal milestones or traumatic events. As you age life seems to speed up and you find that the years seem to fly past. ‘As Time Goes By’ is the story of Frank Gilbert who is experiencing this to the extreme. His time seems to be accelerating at an abnormal rate. Years of his repetitive life seem to go by in days. Can he break the cycle in time?

The final and longest short story is ‘The Man Who Loved Statues’. Captain Michael Pike is a man who has taken a bit of hammering in life. With nothing much to live for he volunteers for an experiment that is going to attempt to alter his passage through time and put him in stasis. Things don’t go quite according to plan.

For US readers: http://www.amazon.com/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324264158&sr=8-1

For UK readers: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Uneven-Passage-Time-ebook/dp/B006MHSWI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324258518&sr=8-1

Go on, give them a try and leave a lovely review (if the mood takes you).