Don't worry, mom, everything's fine...

Where is the balance between telling an entertaining travel story... and scaring your mother half to death? Simon Hoggard and Emily Monk have written a book chock full of gap year stories that would have made any parent cringe. Read a few of them and you'll find that your own stories of crashing vespas in the Egadi Islands and getting locked into the Belvedere in Vienna seem rather tame by comparison...