32 themes • 40 countries • 100 stories

The book is about countries that are not on the radar of most travellers because they are perceived dangerous, dirty, expensive, uninteresting or just have poor infrastructure. My stories are about everyday or not so everyday topics, through which I show how different things are in, say, Colombia, Madagascar or Indonesia, and it is precisely because of this difference that our little world is interesting.

About the author

I am Aliz Ertler, born in 1971 in Szombathely, Hungary. I graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Janus Pannonius University in Pécs, majoring in marketing, and later as a graphic designer from KREA Design School.

I studied in Aarhus, Denmark on a scholarship and has lived in Amsterdam, Budapest, Moscow and Dubai. In the Netherlands I worked for Excerpta Medica Medical Communications and for cultural organisations such as the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University and the Moving Academy for Performing Arts.

In Hungary, I spent several years with the International Red Cross, the Red Nose Clown Doctors Foundation and the Youth Service of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. I worked for the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation for over ten years, much of it from a home office abroad. I have been a freelance graphic designer for several years and live in Badacsonyörs. I also run a small guesthouse, Wild Boar Cottage with my husband. I have visited almost 100 countries.