No Shitting In The Toilet

No Shitting in the Toilet sign If you're sick of the brochure hype. If you suspect the folk on Getaway aren't quite telling you the whole story. If you think the whole travel industry takes itself way too seriously, you'll love No Shitting in the Toilet.

NSITT, the book, is a celebration of all that's perverse about travel. Instead of practical hints it gives you impractical ones. In that sense, NSITT is more in touch with the way things really are.

Weird Travel Stuff

Darkie Toothpaste Way back in 1995, No Shitting in the Toilet, started it's life as a web site. The plan was to get the stuff that would eventually form the book to a bigger audience.

Along the way the web site became something more. It became a place to chronicle all the weird stuff about travelling. Stuff like bizarre products and packaging ... funny signs ... quaint or ridiculous postcards ... or a tribute to the fashion crimes when travelling.

You'll find them here.

LATEST NSITT-FC SUBMISSION

Nov
12

Helen Hobbs NSITT-FC (fan chapters) is a place readers of NSITT can post their own top tens - and chapters if they like - and everyone else can comment on them. (Play nice now)

The latest submission was sent by Helen Hobbs and tackles the vexing topic of haggling. Check it out here.

Favourite Photos

And the story behind them ...

I found this postcard in Erzurum in Turkey back in 1993. A grizzled, toothless old man sold them off a tattered blanket laid on the ground to fresh-faced army recruits doing a tour of duty in the troubled eastern provinces.

I particularly like the provocative way the cigarettes have spilled out of the packet between the soldiers' legs suggesting that he has more than a quick kiss on the cheek on his mind.

Check out more postcards here.

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