Travel Writing and Book Reviews

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My new book Travel Sights Travel Guides don’t mention is free today. This book describes a large number of little known tourist sights from around the world. It is a book for the discerning traveller who has been everywhere else.

This is an excerpt:

The A to Z Museum – the history of the alphabets of the world is covered in this museum in Bloomsbury near the British Museum. 2.6 billion people (36% of the world population) use the Latin alphabet, about 1.3 billion people (18%) use the Chinese script, about 1 billion people (14%) use the Devanagari script (India), about 1 billion people (14%) use the Arabic alphabet, about 0.3 billion people (4%) use the Cyrillic alphabet and about 0.25 billion people (3.5%) use the Dravidian script (South India). But how many people use the Khmer alphabet or the Burmese alphabet? This museum will show you with the help of interactive maps. Fascinating listening stops allow visitors to hear native speakers enunciate each individual letter in an alphabet and then gives the visitor the opportunity to say the same letters – an accuracy percentage is provided to show how closely the visitor has listened. Rare British languages are also covered and provide visitors with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to hear Manx and Cornish spoken. Foreign visitors can also listen to regional British accents and take a fun quiz to see how many they can accurately identify. Anyone confusing Glaswegian with Estuary English will have to pay to leave the museum.

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