This is the travel book that every Inter-Rail vagrant would love to write; the Animal House of the genre * New Statesman * Undoubtedly the most enjoyable travel book of the year * Time Out * Hugely funny (not snigger-snigger funny, but great-big-belly-laugh-till-you-cry funny) * Daily Telegraph * A breezy and entertaining account of what it is like to be utterly at sea in a continent most of his readers will regard as familiar * Independent on Sunday *