Travelling and reading have more in common than you'd think: they are the most popular activities on planes, trains, boats and at airports, and both can make you relax, bite your nails and laugh. To kindle the flames of laughter, we're running a cheerful travel story competition among bloggers in the UK! Write a blog post about your most funny, exciting, surprising or embarrassing experience abroad; post it on your blog; link to this competition to let your readers know about it and leave a comment with the URL of your post below to submit your entry. The writer of the story that made us laugh most will win the new Amazon Kindle so that you don't have to pack heavy books while travelling!

The winner of this brilliant eBook reader will be announced on Tuesday 24th of January 2012. If you want to stand a chance of winning the fabulous prize, this is what you need to do:

1. Bring on the misunderstood gestures in Turkey, funny encounters with camels in Egypt, invitations to join the mile high club during flights to Gran Canaria and haggling disasters! Relive the fun and embarrassment while writing your travel story and share your most hilarious travel story on your weblog;

2. Let your readers know you're taking part in this competition by linking to this page;

3. Share the URL of your entry in the comments of this post before Monday 23rd of January 2012.