Best travel humor books according to redditors
We found 5 Reddit comments discussing the best travel humor books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 5 Reddit comments discussing the best travel humor books. We ranked the 4 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
A Year in Provence and other books by Peter Mayle.
If I can't find the topic in the first two, I can usually find it in the third:
Edit: added links
> Best software programs for an older English speaker to learn conversational German? For young english speaking kids? I hear phone apps are popular these days...
Phone apps like Duolingo and Babble and fun to play around in, but they are little more than toys. If you want to seriously learn German, then you’ll probably have to attend language school. The /r/german wiki has a ton of resources for learning German.
> Best books or videos for general German cultural education for young and old?
This is a very hard question to answer - what do you mean by “German culture”? What would be your goal in reading such books (or watching such videos)? If you’re trying to get a bird’s-eye view of “German culture”, then pick up a travel guide (here is one example), and read through their “introduction to Germany” section.
I would then learn about German history. For example,
this TV series goes through the pivotal moments in German history, and is available on Netflix (dubbed into English). Wikipedia also excels at this. If you like listening, then I can recommend the Germany - Memories of a Nation, which uses ten historical objects in the British Museum to explain different facets of German history and culture.
If you search for “Germany” at your local bookstore (online or physical) you’ll find plenty of books about “German culture” (here is an example), but I haven’t personally read any of them.
> Best place to visit in Germany that will entertain kids for their first trip so that it (also) feels like a proper vacation?
How old are your kids? I would visit any of the major cities (Berlin at the top of the list, but also Munich or Hamburg), there will be tons of things to see and do for both adults and children. I would also then go on a day trip to one of the smaller, picturesque cities; Americans seem to love the feeling of “old Germany”, with its half-timbered houses.
> Are there particularly good trade schools to consider?
Again, depending on how old your children are: fluent German (C1 on the CEFR scale) is mandatory to complete a vocational training course in Germany, so if they are young then they have plenty of time to learn. To get a better understanding of how vocational training in Germany works (it’s different to the US), see the Make it in Germany website (read all the pages in the “vocational training” section; this is just the first one).
THE SWAMP is a great read. If you have the time to read all 900+ pages of it, there's no better novel about early Florida history than Peter Matthiessen's SHADOW COUNTRY.
Another good one that's more historical, albeit a bit salacious, is UP FOR GRABS, which reads like a shorter version of THE SWAMP (focused a bit more on recent history and Miami specifically) if it were written by Hunter S. Thompson. Two words for you: "Mescaline bagels." It was recommended to me personally by Billy Corben when I was writing an article on Tom Wolfe's BACK TO BLOOD (which I thought sucked).
T.D Allman also put out a pretty decent -- if at times shrill and overtly political -- contrarian take on Florida's history in the past two years. That one's called FINDING FLORIDA, and it shines a nice light on some of the state's forgotten figures, like Zephaniah Kingsley.
Last but not least, I definitely recommend LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE by Les Standiford (FAU creative writing faculty). It's an overview of Flagler's Folly and the whole line from Jacksonville down to Key West. Fascinating read, chock full o' great anecdotes.
(Florida history is one of my favorite things in the world, if you can't tell.)
My father sits, i sit, most men at my work sit. I was raised that way. For reference.
https://www.amazon.de/German-Down-Other-Insights-Culture/dp/099548130X
Reading up on it through google, more and more countries are evolving in that direction. Also seemingly has health benefits.