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Trials & Tea Ceremonies

Trials & Tea Ceremonies
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A love story disguised as a travel memoir. Or perhaps, the other way around.

"An engaging and compelling travelogue with a vital and strong emphasis on connection and experience over ticking off the bucket list... Overflowing with the author's curious spirit."

- LoveReading (Indie Books We Love)

"A richly written, unexpectedly profound journey. The book highlights how travel can add richly to the meaning of one's life."

- Mike Richards, bestselling author of The Travelling Ape

"This book reminded me why we travel: not for the postcard moments, but for the mishaps, characters, and revelations along the way."

- Alastair Humphreys, English adventurer, author and motivational speaker

What happens when 'normal' life feels... wrong? Like a splinter in the mind?

Ever had that nagging "Is this it?" doubt-the job, the routine, the quiet erosion of evenings? That feeling life is an endless pilgrimage, chasing a destination that never quite satisfies?

Staring down thirty-something complacency, our relationship fraying under unspoken strains, Cesca and I did the mad thing. We quit our jobs, packed two bulging rucksacks, and set off for a year across twelve countries, testing not just the world, but us. Could we survive stripped bare, with no safety net of home's comforting bath? Would we find the 'music' in the moments, or just more mishaps and eight-legged nightmares?

But this wasn't a postcard holiday. The real thread was our marriage, laid raw on the road and healing in unexpected ways-from tense silences in third-class trains to quiet hand-holds under the Bodhi Tree, proving that love, when tested, can rewrite the map entirely.

This Memoir Reveals...Puncturing the 'backpacker bubble' with third-class train tickets in Mumbai, finding genuine, sweat-soaked connections that smell more of chai and chaos than Instagram filters.A comedy of errors, from alpacas launching dry spit volleys and gut-wrenching food poisoning in Goa to a perpetual dance with giant spiders in the tropics.A practical shift from life's 'pilgrimage' grind (school > job > promotion) to embracing it as 'music, ' sparked by Zen gardens in Kyoto and Daoist climbs in China.The ultimate relationship test: navigating Varanasi's deathly rivers and Tokyo's neon contradictions with just two rucksacks and frayed nerves, discovering that love thrives on shared resilience, not comfort.

Perfect for readers of Wild, Eat Pray Love, or Notes from a Small Island, this is more than a travelogue. It's a deeply personal, often hilarious, answer to that nagging, thirty-something question: "Is this... it?"

About the Authors:

Basho is a British writer and filmmaker whose curiosity spans martial arts philosophy to AI research. Born in Bath, England, he has pursued answers to the 'Is this it?' question his entire life. His articles and films have been featured by major airlines, in Mobi award-winning phone apps, on university English exams, and in global advertising campaigns by Google.

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詳細資料

詳細資料

    • 語言
    • 英文
    • 裝訂
    • 紙本平裝
    • ISBN
    • 9781036971977
    • 分級
    • 普通級
    • 頁數
    • 0
    • 商品規格
    • 出版地
    • 美國
    • 適讀年齡
    • 全齡適讀
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