Lonely Planet Author Writes Crib Notes For Backpackers
YOU’VE bought the Lonely Planet books on Brazil, Colombia, Chile, The Caribbean and South America. You can now vow your friends with tales of bad toilets, long bus journeys and crawling plates of food.
Such books are crib notes for the stay-at-home traveller.
And now one Thomas Kohnstamm, Lonely Planet’s writer of the aforesaid tomes, has admitted it. Says he: “They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia. I wrote the book in San Francisco.”
He goes on: “I got the information from a chick I was dating - an intern at the Colombian consulate.”
Lonely Planet is upset and is, as the Mail says, reviewing all of Mr Kohnstamm’s work.
How the publisher is checking the facts not said, but there are many other travel books to consult with.
Indeed, the authority of all Lonely Planet writers’ work may now be challenged.
While we await the verdict, would-be travellers are encouraged to stay at home, empty the fridge from anything aside from a packet of dried cheese, and to stop washing…
Posted: 14th, April 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 29th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Maybe a bit off topic but ever tried to do something like snowboarding with cheap gear?
April 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
(Time for Anorak embargo!)
April 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Where my publisher’s Virago ..
April 14th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
And not in Key Largo
April 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
But that was in Chic a go…
April 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I couldn’t risk the airport frisk, no ..
April 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
All together now:
I left my stash in San Francisco…
April 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I wrote my book in San Francisco
High as a kite, it came to me.
To be where my embassy chick
Can join me in my bed!
The colombian mafia scare me stiff.
I don’t care!
My love is here in San Francisco
Above the blue and windy sea
When I get published, San Francisco,
Your golden sun will shine for me!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Wow.
Been a long time since anyone referred to any female on the face of the planet as a chick.
Even in San Francisco.
“They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia, man.”
would work better…