From BC to the world travel adventures with Michael Kluckner and Christine Allen.
Key Selling Points
- Author-artist Michael Kluckner proves you still can, in amusing tales from trips with his wife Christine on five continents over the past 40 years. He describes, and illustrates with witty drawings, how they left a rental car underneath a crows' rookery for a few days, and unexpectedly came upon an outdoor cremation in Bali. There are surprises such as inadvertently renting a vacant suite in a seniors' home in France, cyclone-dodging in three countries without ever having to cancel a reservation, and a three-month wander in a campervan through Australia.
- In the final chapters, the narrative turns to travellers' tales from earlier centuries, focusing on writers and artists who made the French Riviera and coastal Italy their winter destination, and how Michael and Christine followed in their footsteps. Vintage postcards collected along the way added texture to their journey.
- Winging It will put a smile on the face of every traveller, whether they have their own stories of spontaneous escapades or just wish they could loosen up their own travel routines and try winging it themselves.
In this era of overcrowded airplanes, huge cruise ships and post-Covid “revenge travel,” is it still possible to take a holiday without making reservations and planning every minute of it? Michael Kluckner’s entertaining stories from 50 years of travel demonstrate that you can still “wing it,” even in the 2020s. Reflecting on travellers’ tales from centuries ago, this book demonstrates both how much and how little has changed when you go on the road.
