Free Drinks for Ladies with Nuts: Delightfully Mangled English from Around the World

Some people write armchair travel books that reveal the seemingly lost arts of wine making and croissant baking and stone masonry, as might still be found in the rural parts of France or Italy. This book is for the rest of us: anonymous words of truth and homespun advice from hotel walls and budget restaurants, as observed by typical tourists. These phrases assure us that, even though we may be far from home, we are still among our own kind. Here’s a toast to the real people who wrote these...