Series Spotlight Tour Stop/Giveaway: Lesser Known Travel Tips Series by Simon Yeats

 

Check out this new-to-me Series and author today: Simon Yeats' Lesser Known Travel Tips Series and make sure to enter the tour wide giveaway as the author is giving one lucky person  a $25 Amazon/BN gift card. The tour is sponsored by Goddess Fish Promotions and you can find all the tour stops HERE.

An Interview with Simon Yeats:

What are your favorite TV shows?

I am a huge fan of Fawlty Towers, The Black Adder, and Yes, Minister. (Prime Minister)

 

What is your favorite meal?

I love a lamb roast. I love an Aussie burger, complete with a fried egg, fried onions, pineapple and beetroot. I love my girlfriend’s spaghetti and meatballs. (Who could have thought it was possible to improve basic spaghetti and meatballs but she found a way)

For dessert, I love steamed pudding (Made my first one in my life a month or so ago after going home to Australia and buying the key ingredient Suet mix), and sticky date pudding. Both served hot with a dollop of French vanilla ice-cream AND whipped cream.

 

If you were to write a series of novels, what would it be about?

I honestly do not think I have the patience or the skill to write novels. Instead, I choose to write a series of memoirs that have far more action, thrills, drama, heart-warming moments, and references to a certain Air France stewardess that broke my heart in India than any fiction book series could muster. Truth is far stranger than fiction, and a lot more interesting as well, in my opinion.

 

Is there a writer you idolize? If so who?

Idolize is a pretty strong word. I don’t want to get a letter from his lawyer telling me to cease my harassment because he feels threatened. How about we say admire? But Bill Bryson was a favorite for many good books and laughs.

 

How did you come up for the title of this book?

Ha, I started off with short snappy titles for my books that were designed to show the thrills and action of my life. CHASED. SHOT AT. RUPTURED INTESTINES. But then I did not think that these titles properly showed my personality or my humor. So I went with the longest titles I thought would fit on the cover of a book. Everyone who looks at the titles of the Lesser Known Travel Tips series says the same thing, ‘those are the longest titles I have ever seen.’ I know. Isn’t it great? Despite all the worry that having a long title would scare off readers, I did it anyway because it fit one key underlying theme of the series. Just because someone else doesn’t think you should do it, that shouldn’t stop you. Because otherwise a person will die and realize that they spent their entire life doing what other people thought was right for them and were too scared to live their own life for fear of what other people would think.

LESSER KNOWN TRAVEL TIPS SERIES

Author: Simon Yeats

GENRE:  Humor/Memoir

 

The Lesser Known Travel Tips memoirs are a hilarious series of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection by Australian author Simon Yeats, who from an early age learned that the best way to approach the misfortunes of this world is to laugh about them.

 

Simon shares his comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living life as an Aussie ex-pat and having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as the Spanish Flu in 1918 or hordes of Mongols in 12th Century.

 

From how to keep yourself entertained when unwittingly forced to watch 11 hours of live sumo wrestling in Japan, to surviving heartbreak in India at the hands of a French flight attendant, to 48 hours spent in Nepal that qualify as the funniest most gut wrenching travel experience since Captain Bligh was set adrift in the Pacific, to his unsuccessful attempts at avoiding going to a brothel in Thailand. From what to do when several people converge to rob you after midnight on a deserted Copacabana Beach, to how to save the Sierra Mountain Range from a wildfire outbreak due to a lack of quality toilet paper, to where not to go in Tijuana when trying to locate the origins to stories of the city’s mythical adult entertainment, to how to save yourself from drowning when caught in a storm while sailing off the California coast. From how to outwit the Italian police while trying to find parking in downtown Genoa, to how to negotiate exploring the Roman ruins of Plovdiv, Bulgaria while on crutches, to how to impress the German Mafia with 80s dance moves, to how to leave a lasting impression on a crowded bar in Gothenburg, Sweden after combining alcohol and antibiotics.

 

Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for you to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to break a leg, contract Dengue fever, or rupture a pancreas.

 Buy Links to all Three Books:

Book One:  https://www.amazon.com/Brothel-Thailand-Ordering-Lesser-Travel-ebook/dp/B0CLDBSXGX/ref=sr_1_3

Book Two: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Mugged-Janeiro-Singing-Police-ebook/dp/B0CPCBMD1N/ref=sr_1_4

Book Three: https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Yourself-Dancing-Bavarian-Nightclub-ebook/dp/B0CR6GDDXR/ref=sr_1_2

Excerpt Three: 

Excerpt from How to Avoid Getting Mugged in Rio de Janeiro by Singing Songs by The Police and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips

 

My trip to Steamboat in 1988 was life defining for me in so many ways. First time being on my own out of Australia. Overcoming that paralyzing fear. First time standing up on a snowboard. Overcoming my natural uncoordinated self while being too poor to pay for lessons. First time having my newly purchased snowboard stolen. Overcoming grief and anger. First time falling in love. First time having my heart crushed, then stepped on, then thrown in a blender. First time having an UZI in my face.

 

There was no time in my life more memorable than the three months I spent in Colorado during the winter of 1988. I was a raw lump of clay, and this small northern Colorado ski town was the pottery wheel. It was a huge, tense step up in life. And I learned that facing up to uncertainty will open the unlimited possibilities of the world to me.

 

Steamboat Springs, often shortened to Steamboat or even The Boat, lives up to its billing as a ski town with a cowboy spirit. Ten-gallon hats and boots are a common sight along the main drag of Lincoln Avenue. The world-famous cowboy downhill runs every January, coinciding with the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Up to 100 professional rodeo riders descend on the town, to show off their complete inability to ski. The Hindenburg landed in a more graceful fashion than these cowpokes after they hit the slopes.

 

The town's name derives from the abundance of natural, hot mineral springs in the area. Early trappers to the Yampa Valley mistakenly believed that the chugging sound emanating from the hot springs was a steamboat coming down the river. I wonder how many times trappers went off tramping to find animal pelts into the untamed wilderness at an elevation of 7000 feet and stumbled across a steamboat navigating a shallow mountain creek?

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links: 

Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life. 

With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived. 

No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.

 

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