Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins: A guide to travelling recklessly, living stupidly

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To find out they were in fact mass-explosive-toting conspiracy theorists, preparing for the world's end with underground bunkers like a giant suicide cult, is almost a pleasant surprise. We had been living in London for a number of years and needed two things – some sun and to travel through an area with a lower frequency of drunk Australian backpackers than the pubs of Clapham we were used to. To find out they were in fact mass-explosive-toting conspiracy theorists, preparing for the world’s end with underground bunkers like a giant suicide cult, is almost a pleasant surprise. Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins is a book of experiences Paul always wanted to get into print, but worried that some tut-tutting travel editor would strip of all the best jokes.

LIFE PLANS ON DIVE BAR NAPKINS is a (hopefully humorous) tale of a life committed to travelling recklessly and living stupidly. I can’t thank everyone enough for their support in purchasing the book (and for sending me photos of it ‘in the wild’ – I love seeing these! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Excerpted from Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins: A Guide to Travelling Recklessly, Living Stupidly by Paul Manser All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. We travelled for days to an out-of-the way beachside town in Costa Rica to visit a friend who was studying Spanish.

We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. I wrote this book for the people who want to experience something different, who drink because they enjoy it, and whose life plans begin as incoherent scrawls on the back of a dive bar napkin.

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You could say that the book is an unnecessary act of self-indulgence by an egotist who shirks life's responsibilities, drinks too much and thinks too little. We were all in our mid-twenties, had no family or partners to worry about and had all just left our jobs. Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins offers a refreshing take on the traditional self-help genre, providing readers with practical advice on how to live life to the fullest by embracing spontaneity, taking risks, and stepping out of one's comfort zone.With a mix of humor, personal anecdotes, and practical tips, author Paul Manser invites readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery, encouraging them to embrace their inner adventurer and pursue their wildest dreams. He seems like the kind of guy who visits a morgue afterhours to peel apart chilled corpses and sew the skin together into human pyjamas, which he later sells online with the tagline: ‘The Epidermis You Want to Be In. A group of friends I’d met in London – and then various other travellers joined us for little periods of time if they were headed the same way.