I bought this book in anticipation of my week long Nicaraguan trip. It accompanied me throughout the trip and it was invaluable. Being a non Spanish speaker accompanying my Nicaraguan-born relatives on the trip, I found it funny that I was constantly being asked to look in my book to get information on where we should eat, where we were going and what certain rules were. I especially loved the sections on cultural norms. At 29 years old, I read these sections and thought, ” So that’s why my mom does that!” Especially the part where it says Nicaraguans point with their lips. My mom was the only person I knew who did that and the realization that there is a whole country of lip pointers was funny to learn about. Even if you are not going to live in Nicaragua, I highly recommend this book as a prerequisite before traveling there. Yeah, you may not care for certain sections dealing with home buying and obtaining visas but the parts that deal with describing certain areas and the maps provided are very helpful. A Great Buy!!
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The info in this book is really helpful … contains things you need to know but may not have thought to ask. It is easy to understand and is also entertaining. It’s worth buying, especially if you’re considering living in Nica.
This book provides PRICELESS information to those traveling to or planning on living in Nicaragua. Joshua & Randy have a way of describing the country and its’ beautiful inhabitants with a charming mix of personal experience and important facts. I read the book about 2 weeks before my Nica trip and would have been a bit lost without the book- especially the section on cultural norms. Thanks for the book, gentleman. I highly reccomend it!
I bought this book in anticipation of my week long Nicaraguan trip. It accompanied me throughout the trip and it was invaluable. Being a non Spanish speaker accompanying my Nicaraguan-born relatives on the trip, I found it funny that I was constantly being asked to look in my book to get information on where we should eat, where we were going and what certain rules were. I especially loved the sections on cultural norms. At 29 years old, I read these sections and thought, ” So that’s why my mom does that!” Especially the part where it says Nicaraguans point with their lips. My mom was the only person I knew who did that and the realization that there is a whole country of lip pointers was funny to learn about. Even if you are not going to live in Nicaragua, I highly recommend this book as a prerequisite before traveling there. Yeah, you may not care for certain sections dealing with home buying and obtaining visas but the parts that deal with describing certain areas and the maps provided are very helpful. A Great Buy!!
I’m pleased to announce that Moon Living Abroad in Nicaragua was voted the *Best Place-Based Guidebook of 2006* on the acclaimed eco-tourism website, Planeta.com:
http://www.planeta.com/planeta/06/0612bookoftheyear.html
“With essential information and practical advice on obtaining a visa, renting or buying a home, learning the language, and navigating daily life in Nicaragua, Moon Living Abroad in Nicaragua gives those dreaming of moving abroad the tools they need to actually make the move. This book is the ultimate ex-pat survival guide!”
Moon Living Abroad in Nicaragua proved to be a wonderful resource as my family and I began to make our fanatasy of living (at least part-time) in Nicaragua a reality. The authors provide lots of details on daily life as well as extensive profiles of Nicaraguan cities and towns across the country. I most appreciated the diverse voices of the expat community that are included in this book. While both authors seem to have many years of experience living in Nicaragua between them, the additional perspectives increase the book’s breadth. This book got me through a long winter in Seattle!
I was flipping through this book at the bookstore the other day. Although it does have some very useful information, the medicine section is shockingly inaccurate. The book says to bring a six-month supply of whatever medicine you need with you. I am in the process of moving to Japan, and in reality, it’s nowhere near that simple. You are only legally allowed to bring a one-month supply of prescription meds and a two-month supply of over-the-counter meds, unless you apply for an import certificate called a Yakkan Shoumei. Even so, there are certain medicines that are never allowed into the country, like anything with a stimulant (methamphetamine, amphetamine, pseudoephedrine).
If you have ADD, you’re SOL–you can literally be arrested on the spot without a warrant for bringing Adderall into Japan.
The book makes no mention of allowable quantities, the Yakkan Shoumei, and what is illegal. For this glaring oversight, I cannot give it more than two stars.
Although I have lived in Japan in my youth and I can speak the language and have recently traveled to Japan more frequently to visit my Japanese friends, I found much new and helpful informatation that was helpful for making my plans to live in Japan again. Ruth Kanagy illustrates her guidebook with beautiful original photographs and makes accurate descriptions and background explanations of social customs and the lifestyle you can enjoy in Japan. This book is comprehensive in scope. It can serve as a useful guide for planning a quality short holiday trip including important money saving traveling details you need to make before you leave that a travel agency won’t tell you, as well as serving as an excellent reference guide for anyone making plans to live and work there and even to permanently make their home in Japan. I recommend this to anyone planning any type of trip to Japan, even to veteran travelers who can speak the language.
I had so much fun reading this book! Having grown up in Japan, Ruth Kanagy has all kinds of tips and interesting comments about the quirks of living in Japan. I especially loved the page in the introduction titled: What I Love About Japan. It’s full of bullet points that just capture all the pleasures of everyday life in Japan that one can take for granted if you don’t stop and notice them.
This book is well organized with all the topics one would expect and has a very thorough resource guide at the end packed full of more interesting info to explore. A definite must for someone considering moving to Japan.
My husband and I live part-time in Italy and found a great deal of erroneous information in this book. We buy most books of this sort that are published on the off chance we will learn something new. However, the problems we found in this book make it difficult to trust any of the information it contains.
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I would like to say that while the writer can oversimplify certain aspects of moving abroad, the author does a good job of providing the support and encouragement needed for such a venture. I have just obtained my own Italian citizenship, and it is soley due to the fact that my GRANDFATHER was born in Italy (just as the author states). It did take over a year to obtain it however. Also, as for needing a light jacket in Rome, that is all I need when I am there, however, I have a little meat on my bones so I dont need too much insulation. Remember to take everything you hear with a grain of salt…and for extra encourage…go rent the movie “under the Tuscan Sun”. Good luck to you, as for me, I’m working on relocating to Puglia Italia!
After casually flipping through this book for only ten minutes, I found it loaded with inaccurate assertions about easily verifiable information, leading me sometimes to wonder whether the author has ever even BEEN to Italy, let alone lived there. Naturally this casts doubt on the credibility of the less easily verifiable assertions it contains as well.
It is absolutely false, for example, that you can obtain Italian citizenship simply “if you have an Italian grandfather and you were born after 1947″ (66); I myself meet both these criteria, yet am totally ineligible. Anyone can find the correct requirements, which are much more complex, on the website of the Italian Embassy–for free. The alleged requirements for obtaining a student visa (“relatively easily obtained,” 67), and for opening a bank account in Italy (“the process is easy,” 108), are similarly oversimplistic and misleading.
Perhaps the most absurd is the author’s claim about weather in Rome: “The most you’ll need to wear in winter is a lightweight jacket” (162). Any unfortunate expats who rely on this misinformation, shivering in Rome in their “lightweight jackets” as the temperatures frequently plummet into the 30′s, may ironically find the one good use for this book, as they might wish to burn it in order to keep warm.
Carry On Abroad truly encapsulates the feel-good spirit that made the films such an enduring success. Nearly all of the teams favourite regulars are here as well as some extra additions to the cast line-up. The usual batch of players that are present and clearly on good form are Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Peter Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey, Babara Windsor, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor and Bernard Bresslaw and are joined by Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan and a host of other familiar T.V stars of the day such as June Whitfield, Ray Brooks, Carol Hawkins, Derek Francis, Patsy Rolands, Sally Geeson and John Clive.
Vic (Sid James) and Cora Flange (Joan Sims) join a pack of tourists on a package holiday deal to the Island of Elsbells. Vic’s plans had already been mucked up as the holiday was intended to be a dirty weekend with his mistress, Sadie Tomkins (Babara Windsor) but all plans went down the drain after Cora (Joan Sims) decides she’d like to go along on holiday to keep an eye on her straying husband thus thwarting any such plans of a romatic rendesvous with Sadie Tomkins (Barbara Windosr).
Once all the tourists arrive at their destination, they are astounded to discover that the hotel is only half built and there are no more than three staff members (Peter Buterworth, Hattie Jaques and Ray Brooks). So follows several comic mishaps that are all as predictable as ever yet remains entertaining throughout with an ever healthy injection of laughs to be endured. Theres great fun throughout the film, especially where the gang get arrested and end spensing a night in jail , following a fight that occurs during a trip to the market.
However its the ending where the film really scores best as a torrential rainstorm occurs and the hotel slowly begins collapsing around their ears. Only problem is everyone is too drunk and feeling far too amorous to even care. Peter Butterworth manically runs round trying to get everyone to vacate the building but his efforts are blatantly ignored. You can’t help thinking of Basil Fawlty in those sequences! There is a wonderful scene with Sid James and Joan Sims during these sequences when they are about to enjoy a spot of passion and then suddenly the roof caves in and they’re drenched through from the rain. Hilarious stuff.
The film has a happy ending and the fun sequence where the gang are all reunited and decide to have a lock in at Vic and Coras pub is one of the best endings in a Carry On film, firmly holding onto that fine, feel-good spirit which would slowly dissolve from here on.
The cast are all on usual form, though Peter Butterworth and Hattie Jaques are perharps the best players here. They make an almost Laurel and Hardy kind of duo and Jaques in particular is an unusual role, playing a Spanish, downtrodden and seemingly demented cook. The rest of the cast certainly get their moments including Joan Sims in the hilarious umbrella sequence where she and Sid James are suddenly soaked from the roof collapsing during the storm of the last night just when they were planning a bit of nookie. Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey hilariously mince around during the majority of the film, putting in their more familiar characterisations whilst Jimmy Logan is a welcome addition to the cast who provides sparkle in every scene hes in.
Other stars such as Carol Hawkins, Sally Geeson, Ray Brooks, John Clive and David Kernan all add to the sparkle. The audio commentary to Carry On Abroad is the best in the series with never a dull moment as Carol Hawkins, Sally Geeson, John Clive and David Kernan share their memories and offer jolly anecdotes about their time making Carry On Abroad. Lively and fun to listen to.
All in all, Carry On Abroad was one of the last true great Carry On’s. The series was on a slipey slope now and this would also be the last to feature Charles Hawtrey – a much loved regular in the series. Carry On Abroad was on the greatest of all the 1970′s Carry On’s and proved
to be another big smash hit at the Box Office. Great fun. Recommended.
Carry On Abroad (1972) had one of the biggest cast’s put together for this late entry to the series. All of the familiar favourites were in the cast which obviously were Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jaques, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw.
The gang all head for the Island of Ellsbells on the mediteranean as part of a holiday package deal. Only problem is that when they arrive at their hotel they are astounded to discover that the building is only half complete and there are a minimum of just three staff members (Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jaques and Ray Brooks).
All possible digs at the expense of package holiday deals are plumbed in this typical British comedy which, although extremley predictable to say the least, does make fun, entertaining viewing and in that fact I do rate it four stars out of five as it stands as one of the funniest later Carry on’s. Peter Butterworth and Hattie Jaques steal the film as they made a priceless, almost laurel and Hardy duo here although many of the other teams members have their moments too which include Joan sims (the umbrella sequence at the end is a classic), Sid James who basically plays his usual rogue-like self, Kenneth Williams, who minces around as the incompetent holiday rep and June Whitfield playing Kenneth Connor’s frigid wife. Charles Hawtrey by this stge had gone on a downward spiral as he battled on with his ever increasing drink problems andrather sadly, director, Gerald Thomas highlighted this fact by having Hawtrey appear drunk half way through the film as if to try and shock Hawtrey into what his life was becoming like. It did’nt work and Hawtrey was never invited to appear in a Carry On film again. There had also been on-going problems with Hawtrey anyway as he continually caused problems for director Gerald Thomas and Producer Peter Rodgers as he firmly believed his name should be elevated above the title. They would never allow such a privelage saying that nobody is the sole star of the show and that the title, Carry On… would always take precedence. It was a sad end of an era and many claim this was the last true Carry On although Girls (1973), Dick (1974) and Behind (1975) would be of good value.
As for Carry On Abroad, well it serves as a reminder of what true carry On films are about – all fun and games! The film particularly scores well at it’s hilarious climax where a torrential storm occurs, leading to the hotel slowly collapsing around their ears, only the gang are all too drunk and feeling far too amorous to even notice or care. Peter Butterworth manically runs round the hotel desperatley trying to get everybody too vacate the building and his efforts are ignored. This hilarious sequence is almost a direct re-working of the famous dinner party scene in Up The Kyber (1968), although there are slight variations. Needless to say the film manages to stay consistently funny throughout the entire film. Carry on Abroad remains a classic comic gem. Recommended.
The correct title for this movie is “Carry On Abroad” and its a solid entry in the series. The characters are archetypal “Carry On-ers” – June Whitfield as the “no sex, we’re British” housewife, Sid James as a husband with a permanently roving eye, Kenneth Williams as the pernickety tour guide, Charles Hawtrey as the “Mothers Boy” etc. Like other series entries, it belongs in the seaside postcard, music hall tradition of obvious vulgarity in its spoof of disasterous package tour holidays – a hotel with flooding waterworks, bathrooms to be shared between two rooms, construction work that begins at 5am, plagues of mosquitoes in the dining room etc.And there’s also that priceless dialogue. For example, (a)Barbara Windsor: I want a relationship that’s going to last. Boyfriend: Who says it won’t last?…we don’t go home until tomorrow afternoon. (b) (In the dining room) Joan Sims: I wouldn’t mind a roll. Sid James: Great, lets go upstairs. Joan Sims: I mean a sausage roll… However, despite spiraling disasters, a Spanish love potion ensures that the holiday isn’t without its sparkle….and the movie certainly isn’t without one either.