Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson first backpacked across Europe with his friend Katz (hilariously familiar to all who've read A Walk in the Woods) in the early 1970s. Twenty years later, he sets out to retrace their steps. As in any of his travel books, no country, city, or cultural icon is spared the bite of Bryson's humor.
Quote:
“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
Author:
Bill Bryson is the author of various travel books, including A Walk in the Woodsand In a Sunburned Country, as well as non-fiction such as At Home and The Mother Tongue. Bryson currently lives in England with his family.
Published: 1992
Length: 254 pages
Set in: Norway, France, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey