30 before 30 Traveling Under the Influence by Angie Banicki

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Vook (October 25, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1629214337
• ISBN-13: 978-1629214337

(Summary)

“Have you hit that moment in life when it's time to change things up-but you're not sure where to start? Meet Angie Banicki: 29, travel virgin, burnt out from her career in entertainment PR. Before turning 30 she set out on a 30-day solo adventure in search of new life direction on a fun journey around Europe. Then she added a twist, planning an itinerary inspired entirely by travel moments gathered from the most influential people in her life, many of them celebs. From the back of a Eva Longoria's friend's moped in chic Paris to the tattoo parlor of David Arquette's best buddy, each of Angie's travel moments reads like a thrilling extended postcard that encourages you to travel, not just to reconnect with yourself, but to reconnect with the people in your life back home. Lighthearted, playful, and funny, this pop culture-infused, free-spirited call to adventure is the perfect book for anyone planning their first big trip abroad” ~Book Summary

Chapters are set up in a format that provides destination location, inspiration for destination, diary like information about her adventure that day, tidbits of information on the destination, and Bio on the person who inspired that particular destination. It reads like a diary and a scrap book all that the same time. Each entry is about a day in that location and how she felt about it.

(Review)

I requested this book because I too was about to turn 30 and was feeling like I needed to change this up in my routine and life. I didn’t have the money or means to go traveling so I was hoping that this book would help me live through her experience. I found it hard to read and not at all an inspirational, live through the book sort of experience.  The details were lacking in the descriptions and it was hard to picture yourself there with her.  I found that the scrapbook layout hard to read, trying to find where the rest of the paragraph was on the next page was a hinder to being able to read it smoothly.

This book would be better published or reviewed as a travel complain to anyone going to Europe and wanting to hit the spots she did. That way you could literally experience something at least similar if not exactly what she did.

I did find some of the inspirations behind interesting. And would recommend it to anyone traveling to London, Paris, Barcelona, Italy, or Amsterdam as a traveling companion.

DISCLAIMER: I received this book free of charge from Goodreads Frist Reads Giveaway in exchange for my unbiased review of it. All opinions are mine and were not coerced upon me to provide a favorable review