Porcelain Travels: Travel Humor Short Stories

By Author Matthew Felix | Novelist • Storyteller • Humor, Short Stories, and Travel Writer

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What's Porcelain Travels: Travel Humor Short Stories about?

The Porcelain Travels podcast features select excerpts and live readings and performances from author Matthew Félix’s eponymous humor collection, an Amazon #1 bestseller in four categories. [o] Porcelain Travels won Gold for Humor in the Readers' Favorite Awards and was a Forward INDIES Humor Book of the Year Finalist. Porcelain Travels is also winner of four Solas Awards, including Gold for Humor [o] Podcast read and performed by the author. [o] Paperback and ebook on Amazon and most online retailers. [o] Matthew Félix is also author of the Amazon best-selling “With Open Arms,” featured in the “Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco” podcast. [o] Music Credits: Modern Jazz Samba Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ [o] matthewfelix.com

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07.25.2019

Matthew decides to right a horrible wrong from his past: never having gone to a Turkish bath when he lived in Turkey, he’s going to one in Morocco. An experience he will never forget. Excerpted from Matthew’s one-man show, Porcelain ...

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07.25.2019 13 Travel Humor Stories (Morocco): A Turkish Bath LIVE! Matthew decides to right a horrible wrong from his past: never having gone to a Turkish bath when he lived in Turkey, he’s going to one in Morocco. An experience he will never forget. Excerpted from Matthew’s one-man show, Porcelain ...
07.03.2019 12 Travel Humor Stories: Bathing in Paris, France LIVE! Matthew’s tiny seventh-floor apartment had a top-to-bottom view of the Eiffel Tower. What it did not have was a bathroom. That didn’t stop him from bathing, taking advantage of an ingenious albeit bizarre - and not altogether functional - setup. ...
06.20.2019 11 Travel Humor Stories (Nile, Egypt): A Dire Miscalculation LIVE! Matthew couldn’t go to Egypt without taking a boat down the Nile—a trip that did not end well. Excerpted from the one-man show, Porcelain Travels Live, recorded live in San Francisco as part of the Marsh Theater’s Monday Night Marsh ...
06.06.2019 10 Travel Humor Stories (Barcelona, Spain): Out of Place LIVE! Matthew’s refuge high in the Barcelona sky is not only minuscule, it’s set up in a way that he’s never seen before - or since. Excerpted from Matthew’s one-man show, Porcelain Travels Live, recorded live in San Francisco as part ...
05.23.2019 09 Travel Humor Stories (Paris, France): Stained LIVE! When Matthew’s friend comes to visit him in Paris, she is stunned by his living situation. Given her disgust at his little studio, it’s ironic - and problematic - when she herself contributes to its demise. Excerpted from the story ...
11.02.2018 08 Travel Humor Stories (Turkey): Let It Flow LIVE! Trapped on a bus in the middle of Anatolia, Matthew really, really had to go to bathroom. When the bus showed no signs of stopping and he became desperate, he realized he also had to get creative. Recorded live at ...
07.11.2018 07 Travel Humor Stories (Paris, France): The Bin & the Bomb Weeks in McDonald’s. Seven flights of stairs. A rubber bin instead of a shower. At least the apartment had a top-to-bottom view of the Eiffel Tower. Just the beginning of what was to prove a very unorthodox living experience in ...
06.24.2018 06 Travel Humor Stories: A Turkish Bath in Morocco Never having gone to a hammam when he lived in Istanbul, Matthew decides to visit one in Morocco. If only he hadn't agreed to the massage. Note: This episode also appears in the "Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco" podcast.
05.29.2018 05 Travel Humor Stories (Valletta, Malta): Double Duty Shortly after his arrival in Valletta, the capital of the Mediterranean nation of Malta, Matthew falls face-first onto his bed. When he's awoken at 5:00 AM, it has nothing to do with jet lag--and it's only by getting very creative ...
05.08.2018 04 Travel Humor Stories (Andalusia, Spain): Falling to Pieces A boulder that's alive. Creatures that come out after dark. In this story within a story, Matthew describes his arrival at a small house in an isolated mountain village in Andalusia (southern Spain) and at his friend's apartment in Palm ...
04.17.2018 03 Travel Humor Stories (Morocco): It Ain't Over Till... First published in his "Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco" podcast, in this story Matthew tells the rest of what happened the night of his first arrival in Tangier. Still shaken from his nightmarish walk from the port, when he ...
04.03.2018 02 Travel Humor Stories (Copenhagen, Denmark): Freshly Squeeged Standing in his friend's bathroom in Copenhagen, Matthew is beyond confused to discover that he can't find the shower. Brushing his teeth proves to be almost as mystifying a conundrum.
03.20.2018 01 Travel Humor Stories (Eastern Europe): No Stopping LIVE! Matthew is introduced by legendary travel writer Don George at this live reading performed on 2/15/18 at Weekday Wanderlust at the Mystic Hotel in San Francisco. Matthew performs his story about an experience gone horribly awry at a urinal in ...