Holiday Of A Lifetime ... Never Again!

There are travelogues and there are travelogues – and then there’s this new beast, the holidaylogue. Holiday Of A Lifetime … Never Again! is a knee-slapping story of two sixtysomethings who set out to conquer Peru and Machu Picchu, but somehow didn't take into account their leg-weary age, their various aches and pains and asthma (not a good idea at Andean altitude, surely?). They certainly hadn't reckoned on the merciless Bicester Bug. Or the strange gaggle of fellow tourists they found themselves with: from the cultured Bexley-Heaths to the Chavtown John Terry (a smaller, smoking version of Chelsea's central deflowerer) and the Roy Cropper oddball with a strange secret in his ever-present shopping bag. It was just 100 years ago in 1911 that American explorer Hiram Bingham III rediscovered the Incas’ ‘lost’ city. Would our 21st century Conquistadors prevail a century later, or would the Holiday Of A Lifetime turn into the Disaster Of A Lifetime? Read on …