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Rule No.5: No Sex on the Bus

Confessions of a tour leader
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Rule No.5: No Sex on the Bus follows Brian Thacker through 20 unforgettable trips as a tour leader across Europe. With candid humour, he shares outrageous mishaps including serving tourists horse meat spaghetti bolognese, losing countless bikes, and even abandoning a passenger by the roadside in only his underwear and a purple toothbrush. Amid chaotic adventures, Brian offers a hilarious look behind the scenes of tour life and the rules meant to keep order – rules often broken in the most unexpected ways.
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This book is ideal for fans of travel and adventure stories, travel professionals, and readers who enjoy witty, irreverent tales of real-life escapades. Those seeking a light-hearted and entertaining glimpse into European tours will find Brian Thacker's confessions particularly amusing.

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Brian Thacker, tour leader extraordinaire, tells it how it really is in this, his best selling and hilarious ride through Europe with a busload of raucous and rarely sober under 35s.

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Crew Manual Rule #2: learn all names on day one.

Crew Manual Rule #3: don't get lost.

Crew Manual Rule #5: Crew must not engage in sexual activity on board the bus with passengers or fellow employees.

But then rules were made to be broken, right?

Brian Thacker confesses all as he reveals the best (and worst) of 20 trips as a tour leader around Europe. How he managed to feed a busload of tourists horse meat spaghetti bolognese, hamburgers made from breakfast cereal, and roosters' testicles; how he left a lone passenger stranded by the side of a motorway in France for three hours in nothing but his underwear clutching only a purple toothbrush; and how, along the way, he managed to lose his driver, his cook, 10 brightly coloured canal bikes, a large church, his bus and eventually his patience.

Praise for Brian Thacker:

'True to life, irreverent and very funny' - Courier Mail

'Brian Thacker will have you spellbound' - Sunday Telegraph

'An entertaining romp' - Canberra Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781741148664

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2006

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 332g

Pages: 300

About the Author

Brian Thacker is the author of Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus (2001), Planes, Trains and Elephants (2002), The Naked Man Festival (2004) and I'm Not Eating Any of That Foreign Muck (2005). In his travels he has visited 58 countries (59 if you count Tasmania). He lives in Melbourne with his wife Natalie and daughter Jasmine.

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