The Battle for Room Service

Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen Victoria or her close relatives. After dropping in on Normal, Illinois and Dead Horse, Alaska place names in the quiet world are sometimes disarmingly honest he travels through soothing Switzerland, Milton Keynes, and Belgium, before his journeys end in EuroDisney, Expo 92, and Center Parcs: territories of Somewhere, the new tourist continent where, in a reversal of the usual rules of travel, countries come to you.