{"id":502,"date":"2003-12-10T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/12\/road_to_mccarth\/"},"modified":"2003-12-10T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2003-12-10T09:30:39","slug":"road_to_mccarth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/road_to_mccarth\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get around to reading Pete McCarthy&#8217;s first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0340766050\">McCarthy&#8217;s Bar<\/a>, although my sister left a copy around my flat a while ago, so it&#8217;s there for me when I get a chance.<br \/>\nThe fact that Tesco had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0340766077\">this<\/a> (not a Tesco link) on sale for 2.99 may have swayed me, but this was an entertaining travel book in the style of Bill Bryson.<br \/>\nI used to enjoy the various travel TV shows that Pete McCarthy used to do a few years ago, and the same kind of humour still emerges. A good read then &#8211; maybe learning a couple of things along the way.<br \/>\nBut I still have a slight problem with this type of book. When you have your first hit book, effectively backpacking around the world, maybe with a few more quid in your pocket than a gap-year student has, that&#8217;s fair enough.<br \/>\nBut when you&#8217;ve earned many thousands from sales all over the world (McCarthy sees someone buy a copy of his last book in Tasmania), then I know that all your moans about travelling economy are a little misplaced. We know you could pay the business fair if you wanted to. You can get the good hire car. There&#8217;s no real need to eat too economically etc.  I suppose that if I was travelling and loaded, I certainly wouldn&#8217;t be limo-ed around and stay at only five star hotels; indeed I&#8217;d probably do much as McCarthy does. So where&#8217;s the contradiction?<br \/>\nUh&#8230; good point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0340766077<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}