- Genre:humor
- Sub-genre:Form / Essays
- Language:English
- Pages:212
- eBook ISBN:9780995950115
- Paperback ISBN:9780995950108
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Overview
A humourist lawyer? Not an oxymoron here. With Poutine on the Orient Express, Marcel Strigberger (humorist in the U.S.A.- Canadians are obsessed with that extra "U") takes you through an entertaining and trip about travel.
Have you ever naively tried to use reward points expecting to get a convenient free flight, taken a sightseeing tour with a guide who would rather be undergoing root canal, or spent ages at the airport arrival area watching that luggage carousel, with hope? Please read on.
Poutine covers it all, from airlines to trains, tipping and toilets. It also discusses the last letter of the alphabet, "zed" (in Canada eh?)
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This book takes an irreverent look at travel discussing topics you have no doubt wondered about such as:
-Caribbean cruises and why all the islands look alikeāis there actually more than one island?
-When your right to return to the all-you-can-eat buffet legally ends;
-Luggage-packing theories and why rollers & folders are forever natural enemies;
-What makes a city?-why cities are proud of their historical disasters;
-Why famous European cathedrals took hundreds of years to build;
-Whether modern art is really art;
-Why Stonehenge doesn't have a roof, and others
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