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Armed only with German from an English University, where "spoken proficiency was neither thought necessary nor encouraged," the author arrives in Innsbruck at the age of 21 to take up a posting as the English language assistant in an Austrian school. All he knows about his home for the next year is that the men wear funny leather shorts and you can ski there. Unfortunately the school is closed, he has nowhere to live and no money. Assisted, and sometimes hindered, by a cast of colourful characters, In Need of Assistants describes his journey from student to teacher as he adapts to life in the...

Ever wondered how much you could see of a place in just one day? Iain Moss decides to find out. Tired of travelling around the world on business but seeing nothing of it, he finally rebels against the routine of airport-hotel-office-airport and sets out to build a single day at leisure into every trip. At the same time, he and his family begin a series of foreign assignments taking them around the world. The experience of adapting to these changes as the family grows up forms a linking thread through a series of travel stories detailing how he uses his available 24 hours to explore some of...