HARDSHIP POSTING
VOLUME 2

400 more amusing and amazing anecdotes of
ordinary expats in extraordinary situations around Asia!

"Hardship Posting" Vol.2 is the follow-up to the best-selling first volume which has sold out around Asia several times. With even more stories and twice as many contributors, this is a hilarious warts-and-all look at the extreme experiences and situations that expats find themselves in, thousands of miles from the comfort zones of their own country and culture."

Compiled and edited by Stuart Lloyd, who spent over 12 years in Asia. With colourful narration from the legendary Old Asia Hand, barstool philosopher and raconteur, Colonel Ken.

The gent that threw his Indian laundryman off his houseboat! The Aussie that turned up to the wrong Thai funeral - and stayed! The American that always takes 12 eggs to the toilet! The Filipino faith healer that removed a volcanic rock instead of a kidney stone! The gent handcuffed to his hospital bed after a fight with a taxi driver! The Scotsman that couldn't get enough whiskey in Indonesia! The Brit who paid a Hong Kong fine in Monopoly money! The High Commissioner that drove his official car off the road in Brunei! The European couple looking for The Floating Market in a Bangkok office block! Waking up to find the girl of your dreams is a toothless Chinese grandmother! The American shot in a Sri Lankan palace roadblock! The guy 'quarantined' on his honeymoon! The gent that bribed a Thai policeman with a papaya salad! The madman that wore a red plastic dress on the Tokyo train! And many, many more…

Chapter 1: Airport and Flying Stories
Chapter 2: Bar, restaurant and nightclub stories
Chapter 3: Bribery, corruption and conmen stories
Chapter 4: Driver and maid stories
Chapter 5: Gold, Hash, rugby and sports stories

Chapter 6: Holiday and travel stories

Chapter 7: House, flatmate and landlord stories
Chapter 8: Doctor, nurse, hospital and mumbo-jumbo stories
Chapter 9: Hotel stories
Chapter 10: Language difficulty and miscommunications stories

Chapter 11: Office, work and corporate stories

Chapter 12: Officialdom, authorities and embassy stories
Chapter 13: Police and traffic police stories
Chapter 14: Shopping, market and retail stories

Chapter 15: Taxis, traffic and public transport stories

Chapter 16: Wives, girlfriends, concubines and lady-boy stories

Chapter 17: Farewells and moving company stories
Chapter 18: General miscellaneous stories

Plus 24 cartoon illustrations of Col.Ken and friends that'll bring tears to your eyes!

Published by Chrome Pole Press (an imprint of Captions of Industry Pty Ltd).

Non-fiction/travel

ISBN: 0 9578332 0 2