[Spotlight & Guest Post] Lesser Known Travel Tips Series by Yeats | #Humorous #Memoir #Travel @GoddessFish @authoryeats #BookX #Bookstagram #BookThreads #LaughOutLoudComedy

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[Spotlight & Guest Post] Lesser Known Travel Tips Series by Yeats | #Humorous #Memoir #Travel @GoddessFish @authoryeats #BookX #Bookstagram #BookThreads #LaughOutLoudComedy

How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand by Ordering a Beer and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips. by Simon Yeats
Series: Lesser Known Travel Tips Series #1
Published by Independently Published on October 19, 2023
Genres: Humorous, Memoir
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 214

Book 1 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read on the train to work so they laugh so freaking hard that they scare away the other commuters allowing them to have two seats to themselves.

Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this crazy and funny. Australian ex-pat Yeats, as all he has ever been called since High School, shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as the Spanish Flu in 1918.

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.

Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for readers to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to pay for overpriced drinks in Bora Bora, break a leg trekking in the Dolomites, or rupture a pancreas diving on the Great Barrier Reef.

How to Avoid Getting Mugged in Rio de Janeiro by Singing Songs by The Police and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips by Simon Yeats
Series: Lesser Known Travel Tips #2
Published by Indpendently Published on December 1, 2023
Genres: Humorous, Memoir
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 254

Book 2 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read in the waiting area of a job interview so they laugh so freaking hard that it will impress the CEO to such an extent that he offers them a corner office and double the vacation time given to all the other employees.

Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this insane and amusing. Australian ex-pat Yeats, as all he has ever been called since High School, shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as the Bubonic Plague in the 1300s.

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.

Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for readers to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to lose a testicle while running with bulls in Pamplona, survive a taxi ride in Buenos Aires, or damage their liver at Oktoberfest.

How to Survive Making Yourself Look Silly While Dancing with the German Mafia at a Bavarian Nightclub and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips by Simon Yeats
Series: Lesser Known Travel Tips #3
Published by Indpendently Published on December 28, 2023
Genres: Humorous, Memoir
Format: Paperback
Pages: 244

Book 3 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read before taking their driving exam at the DMV so they laugh so freaking hard that the driving test supervisor is so overawed that they just pass the applicant without giving them the test.

Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this outrageous and hysterical. Australian ex-pat Yeats, as all he has ever been called since High School, shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as Cholera in the 1850s.

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 rupture a disc sleeping on an airport floor, pay exorbitant travel insurance premiums, or succumb to Dengue fever in Indonesia.

How to React When Woken at 3AM by Drunk Argentinian Backpackers While Staying in a Youth Hostel and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips by Simon Yeats
Series: Lesser Known Travel Tips #4
Published by Independently Published on 09/10/2024
Genres: Humorous, Memoir
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 246

Book 4 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read when arriving at Paris airport so they laugh so freaking hard that it will intimidate any suspicious characters looking to abduct them and sell them into the human trafficking game.

Life was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure as hell was not meant to be this bizarre and witty. Australian ex-pat Yeats, as all he has ever been called since High School, shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as Mongol hordes in the 12th century.

From how to negotiate getting abused in Los Angeles when you will only drive at 5 miles/hr., to what to do when locked out of your hotel room in your underwear, to the emotions of attempting the world’s second highest bungee in South Africa when you have a pathological fear of heights, to how to deal with the trials and tribulations of staying in a youth hostel in South America with travelers who have no respect for the other guests.

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 empty your bank account, get squeezed sitting in a middle airline seat on a nine hour flight to Tokyo, or deal with border security at the Ukraine/Russia boundary.

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Excerpt from Lesser Known Travel Tips Series

Excerpt from Book 1

My family’s most cherished vacation when we were all kids was a trip we took to the South Island of New Zealand in the southern hemisphere Autumn of 1980. All our relatives live on the north island where my mum and dad both grew up on dairy farms. So, we had already made a trip or two to Auckland in my young life. My parents had emigrated to live in the tropical heat and brutal humidity of the northeast of Australia before any of us kids were born and given a choice in the matter.

There are four of us in my family. An elder brother, an older sister, me, and a younger sister. Each of us is quite different in our personality and our interests. My older sister is the athlete. My younger sister is the diplomat. My brother is the brainiac. Me? Well, I tend to just sit back and let my siblings be in the limelight.

You can imagine me as being the little kid running around in the playground under a mop of red hair being extra polite with all the other kids and no one teasing me at all for having red hair. Something close to that.

But among me and my siblings, none of us ever stole a car and took off for a joy ride. None of us have ever been arrested by undercover police for trying to sell them synthetic crack cocaine we had cooked up in the basement. None of us ever got in trouble for mislabeling someone by using the wrong pronoun. I mean, sure, I once got in trouble for calling my headmaster the C-word, but, other than that small blemish on my record, I considered myself an exemplary student. Our mum and dad were amazing parents to raise us all so well.

We were a very content family growing up in the 70’s and 80’s while living in the sweltering pizza oven, otherwise known as North Queensland. What about central air conditioning? Oh, how entitled and twenty-first century of you to ask. Rubbing an ice cube across the forehead and asking my younger sister to blow against it. Does that count? Central air conditioning? No. There was none. Just like there was extraordinarily little to do in my hometown. Watching paint dry as a kid living in Townsville brought out the same level of unbridled fascination that I now see with adults viewing porn.

The reasoning behind there being nothing to do is obvious. It is not safe to do anything where I lived. Australian country towns are just holding pens for human beings surrounded by a natural species menagerie of death.

Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.

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Purchase Links for Lesser Known Travel Tips Series

How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand by Ordering a Beer and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips.

Amazon Kindle Edition
Yeats, Simon (Author)
English (Publication Language)
216 Pages - 10/18/2023 (Publication Date)

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

Amazon Kindle Edition
Yeats, Simon (Author)
English (Publication Language)
254 Pages - 12/01/2023 (Publication Date)

How to Survive Making Yourself Look Silly While Dancing with the German Mafia at a Bavarian Nightclub and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips

Amazon Kindle Edition
Yeats, Simon (Author)
English (Publication Language)
244 Pages - 12/28/2023 (Publication Date)

How to React When Woken at 3AM by Drunk Argentinian Backpackers While Staying in a Youth Hostel and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips

Amazon Kindle Edition
Yeats, Simon (Author)
English (Publication Language)
246 Pages - 09/10/2024 (Publication Date)

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About Simon Yeats

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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Guest Post by the Author of Lesser Known Travel Tips Series

Exploring [your book title] – a post about the setting/era of your book

My book titles work exactly as they are intended to do. Tell almost an entire story, only leaving out dates and what color shorts I might have been wearing at the time. I once dabbled with naming my books with sharp catchy one word titles that were related to my adventures. ACCUSED! SHOT AT! PANCREATITIS! Then I found that this approach did nothing to show my personality, nor did it help to ward readers away from reading the book that were not going to like my sense of humor.

Anyone who reads a book with the title How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand by Ordering a Beer and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips, and then writes a review where they criticize it because they were shocked that the author’s sense of humor was not to their liking and that my antics are not things that they would deem appropriate behavior, helps me to laugh off their negative criticism. Oh my god, I spelled it out in the title and they still knowingly brought the book and read it and are now finding offense with it and the humor inside?

The book titles also convey another very serious theme of the books. Many people do make note to me of how the titles of my travel memoirs are the longest book titles imaginable, to which my response is, “I know. I do not care.” Which, if you understand what is the one aspect of people that inspires me, that the most contented people in the world do not give a shit what other people think of them, will make perfect sense.

Not that I am being facetious, but until you have done something that is so simple to do and yet so many people want to point out that they are surprised by the fact you did it, you will never see how easy it is to live a life where 100% of your actions can end up being dictated by your fear of what others will think of you.