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Horsington, Mr George R

 
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“What Goes On Tour Stays On Tour” captures seven days in Vietnam, and the interaction of three men slogging along on mountain bikes amid the rugged beauty of the Tongkinese Alps. The journey takes them into the heart of Vietnam’s northern tribes, beyond the familiar terraces of rice paddies and river deltas, into a rougher country of mountain maize and limestone crags. The roads and tracks provide physical tests and painful tumbles, but the journey also strains the bonds of friendship between the trio, as much as their legs. They are forced to look inside themselves, as well as interacting with the people and landscape they encounter. History, politics and philosophy mingle with cultural commentary, personal revelations and vodka fuelled excess. “What Goes On Tour Stays On Tour” reminds us that travel is the ultimate Rorschach test, which tells you as much about the writer, as the places he visits.

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George Horsington grew up on a dairy farm in the chalk valleys of Dorset, England. He studied at Downing College, Cambridge and holds a master’s degree in History, which has served as a millstone round his neck for his many years in the oil and gas industry. He has lived and worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Baku and Dubai. He runs half marathons, never whole ones, and treks up volcanoes as a past time. He works for a shipping company in South East Asia, is an novelist, and a middling cook and tennis player. He is married to Lisa and they have two children.

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