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How Low Can You Go? Round Europe for 1p Return (+ Tax) (Paperback)

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Tom Chesshyre is on a mission: to visit a dozen destinations that he can't spell, can't pronounce and wouldn't have heard of if low-fare airlines didn't fly to them. Places like Szczecin, Poprad-Zakopane, Kaunas, Paderborn, Haugesund, Brno and Tampere. Squeezing into his no-frills seat, he enters a hidden world of ex-Solidarity leaders and ultra-cheap dentists in Poland; minus 50C ice-rooms in Slovakia; Esperanto lessons and big nights out in Lithuania. Along the way he learns about the 'New Europe', the collapse of the Iron Curtain, the expansion of the European union -- plus the fun you can have on a 1p flight.

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Published
03/05/2007

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

ISBN
9780340937853

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'Offers a passenger-eye view of this amazing revolution. Fasten your seatbelts, it's a wonderful ride.' -- Mail on Sunday 'Highly-readable Bill-Bryson-esque travel writing... Chesshyre asks some timely questions, among them the ethics of flying and the cultural, not to say racial, damage inflicted by the dreaded stag-party outing' -- Telegraph 'If it's unspellable and unpronounceable, Chesshyre has been there, travelling steerage.' -- The Times 'While never lacking in humour -- even in darkest Szczecin, Poland (where he goes for 1p) -- Tom also makes a valid environmental point.' -- Mirror 'The resulting book is a larky yet thoughtful tour of New Europe, during which Chesshyre braves local tipples, leaps into icepools and joins some very British stag nights.' -- Daily Mail