LIFE in the fast lane for travel writer Peter Finkbeiner-Zellmann means riding pillion on a precariously speeding motorbike through Bangkok's notorious traffic and trying to catch a flight to Hong Kong.
But he still missed his plane and arrived here yesterday a day late and in something of a fluster, although in time for the cocktail that was held to launch his latest oeuvre - Business and Pleasure - The Best of Asia.
The book is a kind of snob's guide to consummate consumption - in the finest style, of course.
Thumbing through the well-researched book which talks about the most luxurious hotels and the foremost restaurants in 23 Asian countries, it was immediately obvious to us that the project required a lot of hard and tireless work on the part of Finkbeiner-Zellmann.
'Quite right,' responded the German author, when we put that point to him.
'When I jumped off from the back of an elephant at Tiger Tops in Nepal in order to photograph a water buffalo, I ended up on the ground in absolute agony with a bone in my ankle sticking out of my flesh.