Are We Nearly There Yet? Paperback (8,000 Misguided Miles Round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra)
Hatch, Ben | Summersdale Publishers
0원 | 20170119 | 9781849531559
They were bored, broke and turning 40, so when Ben and Dinah saw an advert looking for a husband and wife team with young kids to write a guidebook about family travel around Britain, they jumped at the chance. This book takes the reader through the trials of going on holiday for a living.
Ben Hatchis the author of Frommer's Britain for Free, Frommer's England with Your Family, and Scotland with Your Family.
If you think writing a guidebook is easy, think again A family's 8,000 miles round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra they were bored, broke, burned out and turning 40, so when Ben and Dinah saw the advert looking for a husband and wife team with young kids to write a guidebook about family travel around Britain, they jumped at the chance. With na ve visions of staring moodily across Coniston Water and savouring Cornish pasties, they embark on a mad-cap five-month trip with daughter Phoebe, four, and son Charlie, two, embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes.
The story of a madcap five-month family trip to write a travel guide--embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery and an industrial supply of baby wipes "Hurry up," I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray Mears'Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly because Charlie sat on the volume button of the remote. The kids writhe about in the V05 shampoo they just spilt, laughing as the last of their clean clothes bite the dust, and I'm thinking: "Survive driving round England with two under 4s, staying at a different hotel each night and visiting four or five attractions a day and sometimes a restaurant in the evening. Sleep all in the same room, go to bed at 7 p.m. after having had no evening to yourself, wake up at 7 a.m. and do it all again the next day with the prospect of another 140 nights of the same--then come and tell me about survival in your khaki ****ing shorts, Ray." They were bored, broke, burned out, and turning 40. So when Ben and his wife Dinah were approached to write a guidebook about family travel, they embraced the open road, ignoring friends' warnings: "One of you will come back chopped up in a bin bag in the roof box." Featuring deadly puff adders, Billie Piper's pajamas, and a friend of Hitler's, it's a story about love, death, falling out, moving on, and growing up, and 8,000 misguided miles in a Vauxhall Astra.
"A wonderful bookhilarious, cringeworthy and moving, all at the same time. Highly recommended for anyone with a family, a car or a sense of humour." Sophie Kinsella, author, Confessions of a Shopaholic
"Ben Hatch is an extremely gifted comic writer; but what makes this book truly special is that the comedy is played out against the background of his father, former BBC Producer, Sir David Hatch, slowly dying of cancer . . . An absolutely wonderful book." The Daily Mail
"Hatch humorously recounts the epic tale of his 8,000-mile odyssey round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra with his wife and children." The Times
"Refreshing, insightful, very funny." Joanne Harris, author, Chocolat
