The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011. Pages: 304 in Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Bored oke and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities on earth. Paul Carr comes to of the surprising realisation that it would actually be cheaper to live in a hotel in Manhattan than in his one-bedroom London flat. Inspired by that possibility. he decides to sell most of his possessions. abandon his old life and spend a year living entirely without commitments. as a modern-day nomad. Thanks to Paul's highly developed blagging skills. what begins as a one-year experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestyle - a life lived in luxury hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars. Hollywood actresses and Icelandic rock stars. Of 6.000-mile booty calls. of partying with 800 female hairdressers dressed only in bedsheets. and of nearly dying at the hands of Spanish drug dealers. And. ...