Elisabeth Sowerbutts

Non-Boring Vacation Packing Guide: Save Your Back, Time and Money (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 89
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781465889898
• Artikelnr.: 45458090

Autorenporträt

I¿ve been traveling since I was seven. My mother was ill and I was packed off to a holiday in Ireland ¿ from our home in Scotland at the time ¿ I don¿t remember the holiday ¿ but I do remember the excitement of catching my first flight ¿ unaccompanied! I must admit over the years the romance and excitement of planes has worn off a bit but I still get excited showing up at the airport at the start of a new adventure. I¿ve been to every continent except Antarctica ¿ and that¿s on the list. I¿ve traveled solo and with friends. I¿ve traveled with a partner. I¿ve stayed in flea-pit hostels and luxury hotels. I¿ve used travel agents and booked my own trips. I have bought almost every major travel guide on the planet and used most of them. Travel is my passion ¿ but it has never been my career. Though I became a geologist at least partly because I was hoping to get a trip to the Antarctica research station my School had access to - didn¿t quite work out though (couldn¿t be bothered with the PhD). Geology took me to some remote corners of Papua New Guinea and Australia ¿ and yes there is a very good reason that some places are ¿off the beaten track¿ ¿ not all of which are good. Retraining I deliberately chose a field which was in high demand so a) I would earn good money to fund my travel habit and b) would be easily enough be able to get another job if an employer didn¿t understand my requirement for 2-month holidays. Computing did fulfill its side of the bargain but in the end the boredom of doing something that I grew to hate was too much. These days I work in the back bedroom, in New Zealand¿s capital city, Wellington, with easy access to the airport and the world. I work in my pajamas when I feel like it. I¿m a writer, developer and promoter of websites about various topics ¿ but travel is still my passion ¿ and that¿s why I developed my Lis¿s Travel Tips eBook series.