After retiring in 1999, the author enjoys travelling the globe with Lian, his Malaysian wife. This is the third book in the Travel Bug series, following the success of Catch the Travel Bug and No Cure for the Travel Bug. The trips have taught us the inherent friendliness of local people we have met all over the world, and all that is required is a smile and a greeting to turn suspicion and a frown into a hug or handshake. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different journey. It is not meant to be a guidebook. Just pick a section from the contents page that interests you, and let us transport you there., Included are trips to: Ladakh in northern India - the delta region of Vietnam - a trek in Upper Mustang, Nepal for the 3-day Tiji Festival - travels around Costa Rica and Panama in Central America - Hokkaido in Japan - snorkel with the Whale Sharks off Cebu Island in the Philippines - by road from Yangon to Inle Lake in Myanmar (Burma) - Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and the ancient cities of Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand China, take the southern Silk Route from Kashgar to Xian - to West Timor in Indonesia for audience with the Raja of Boti - Kerala and the backwaters of southwestern India - find a living bridge in Sumatra, Indonesia to Palawan Island in the Philippines and its underground river, - Cuba and old Habana, - a climb into an active volcano with the sulphur miners on the Indonesian island of Java.

Experience some of the dangers, and the humour found when travelling to parts that are often well off the beaten track followed by most tourists. The reader can thus feel that they have shared and participated in each of our travels, all from the safety of your armchair. This book includes trips to Antarctica, Argentina, China and Tibet, Easter Island, India and Sikkim, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysian Borneo, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different trip.

Experience some of the dangers, and the humour, found when traveling to parts that are often well off the beaten track followed by most tourists. The reader can thus feel that they have shared and participated in each of our travels, all from the safety of their armchair. No Cure for the Travel Bug follows on the success of the first book, Catch the Travel Bug. The journeys include trips to the Arctic (Baffin Island to find the narwhal and polar bears), China (provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Hubei, and Yunnan), India (Himachal Pradesh for lessons with the Dalai Lama and to Rajasthan with its palaces and havelis), Indonesia (Bali, Krakatoa, the Spice Islands of Maluku and Sulawesi), Korea, Laos (a slow boat to Luang Prabang), Macau, several trips to Malaysias Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Taiwan, and Thailand. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different trip. Cover photo: ChinaDawn over the Three Gorges.

This is the fourth book in the 'Travel Bug' series, following the success of 'Catch the Travel Bug', 'No Cure for the Travel Bug', and 'The Travel Bug Goes Viral'. The world is changing so fast, and even the wildest places are relatively easy to reach. We continue to search for such places, but making due allowance for our ever-advancing years. Each chapter is self-contained and covers a different journey. It is not meant to be a guidebook. Just pick a section from the contents page that interests you, and let us transport you there. Included are trips to: the Indonesian islands of Bali, Ambon and Seram - a logging concession in Sarawak - the Karakoram Highway to Kashgar - Papua in Indonesia to attend a tribal festival with the penis sheathed tribesmen - Italy: Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence, Pisa, La Spezia and the Cinque Terre, Rome - Malaysia: Pangkor Island, Ulu Muda forest and archaeological dig - The Caucasus: including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Turkey - a Holy Land tour - Kuching in Sarawak - Petra in Jordan - a drive around Sabah - take a Comino pilgrims way to Santiago de Compostela from Portugal into Spain - China, to visit the Dongchuan Red Fields, Lijiang, Shangri-La and a journey taking us to Litang and Kanding - get lost in the mangrove forest of Malaysia - Pontianak in Indonesian Borneo - Romania and Bulgaria to see the Painted Monasteries - the Kelabit highlands of Sarawak - to Nagaland and Assam in North-Eastern India - follow the Chinese border with Myanmar and meet the jade traders at Ruili, on to Luang Prabang in Laos - the abandoned deepest underground tin mines in Malaysia - By train and public transport around Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan for the walnut harvest. - Japan and the Kumano Kodo Shinto/Buddhist pilgrimage route in the Kii Peninsular.

Do you like your garlic Goodfellas thin? Have you ever been part of a carrotmob? Why are bartenders fat washing their spirits (and what does that even mean?) Eatymology demystifies the most fascinating new food words to emerge from today's professional kitchens, food science laboratories, pop culture, the Web, and more. With 100 definitions, illustrations, and fun food facts and statistics on everything from bistronomy to wine raves, Eatymology shows you why it's absolutely imperative to adopt a coffee name and what it means to be gastrosexual, and is the perfect gift for everyone from foodiots to brocavores.

You won't want to miss the new story from New York Times and #1 international bestselling queen of romantic women's fiction Jill Mansell, featuring: Poignant, laugh-out-loud fiction that makes you smile A feel good story about second chances Star-crossed lovers The importance of finding your way home Didi Laing met her first love, Shay Mason, on a magical winter visit to Venice. They were rapturously happy together and Shay came to work at Didi's parents' hotel in the Cotswolds. Then one shocking event changed everything, and Shay disappeared. For thirteen years, no one expects to hear from him again. Then one day out of the blue, Shay returns to fulfill his father's dying wish. Moving into the best suite in Didi's hotel sets off a chain of events that affects the whole town. Everyone has their own stories and secrets, more intertwined than anyone could have guessed... Praise for Jill Mansell: "Uplifting, heart-warming and supremely feel-good."—SOPHIE KINSELLA, #1 New York Times bestselling author, for It Started with a Secret "Laugh-out-loud entertainment."—Fresh Fiction for Kiss "A frothy, escapist romp."—Booklist for Fast Friends

"Smart, timely and riveting."--The New York Times Book Review Perfect for fans of Warcross and Black Mirror, Girl Gone Viral is the inventive and timely story of a seventeen-year-old coder's catapult to stardom. For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She builds entire worlds from scratch: Mars craters, shimmering lakes, any virtual experience her heart desires. But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget. Until now. Because WAVE, the world's biggest virtual reality platform, has announced a contest where the winner gets to meet its billionaire founder. The same billionaire who worked closely with Opal's dad. The one she always believed might know where he went. The one who maybe even murdered him. What begins as a small data hack to win the contest spirals out of control when Opal goes viral, digging her deeper into a hole of lies, hacks, and manipulation. How far will Opal go for the answers--or is it the attention--she's wanted for years?