Twenty-five-year-old Harry Fisher hates his dead-end tech support job and wants to try something that will really make a difference. If it also wins the affections of Nicola, a woman he’s been trying to get into bed for over a decade, all the better. A brown envelope at his doorway tells him he’s been accepted to go to Vietnam for six weeks, and the wheels are set in motion.Inspired by the pictures of volunteers and smiling children, Harry’s excited to go, but he’s never been outside England except for a family trip as a teenager, and nerves mingle with anticipation. He meets with his fellow volunteers who have managed more than just rattling a tin at old ladies and realises he’s in for a shock.What does Vietnam have in store for him? How will he cope with looking after others when he can barely look after himself? Will Harry come back a changed man with an open-mind like all those backpacking hippies do, or will he return home and continue to be the Neanderthal that evolution failed?Follow Harry’s fascinating journey of culture shock, humbling war memorials, cheap booze, and hot, noisy Vietnamese streets. With shameless British humour and laugh-out-loud prose, An Idiot Goes East is a wild journey you’ll have a hard time forgetting.