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Guangzhou Tourism

Some visitors to this site are using the search terms “gonzo china” because they don’t know how to spell “Guangzhou”. This isn’t a problem for us, as we at Gonzo Tourism are happy to get any links we can, but I think I should give the people what they want. So, due to [...]


More Bangkok Nights

After travelling through Russia, Mongolia and China during winter, and especially after the worst snow storm China had seen for 50 years, I was ready for some warm weather. Thailand seemed to be a good choice to hang out while I organised gainful employment. I was really running low on money at this [...]


Mini Rough Guide to Wales Beach Attack Shame

I attended the TNT Travel show here in  London this weekend; by all accounts a pretty drab and predictable event with booth after booth of crappy keyrings and email spam schemes poorly disguised as ‘competitions’. However, there was one ray of ill humoured sunshine when an enthusiastic Welshman thrust a gem of a free guidebook [...]


Travel Can Kill

I was settling down for an afternoons drinking in an unremarkable bar on the sweaty tourist hellworld of Khao San Road, Bangkok, when I met the most travel-beaten individual I encountered during my long trip.

This shell of a man hobbled towards me, accompanied by my friend who had met him [...]


Spain and the Sea | Part One

There are many things in this world that scare me, even terrify me to tears, and let me tell you the wonders dear reader of the Spanish coast. Somewhere between Torremolinos  and Banalmadena sandwiched between the cruel salty sea and the dusty red mountains lays the real Wild West. These are frontier towns where [...]