Round Ireland With A Fridge
TV comedian Tony Hawks tries to win a bet by hitchhiking around the circumference of Ireland in one calendar month, with a fridge. This is the story of Tony's adventures—the people he meets, the difficulties, the triumphs, and that fridge.
TV comedian Tony Hawks tries to win a bet by hitchhiking around the circumference of Ireland in one calendar month, with a fridge. This is the story of Tony's adventures—the people he meets, the difficulties, the triumphs, and that fridge.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091863272 (0091863279)
Publish date: April 16th 1998
Publisher: Ebury Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Funny,
Comedy,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
I thought I'd read and really enjoyed this one, many years ago, but I was giving a high rating for a concept, not a great deal more.The content itself is remarkable in mirroring certain observations from visiting Ireland myself, and Hawks delivers these few sentences with pithy, unattached wisdom. I...
Read quickly and in some ways too quickly. In some places he came across as being disinclined to do the place-names the justice of looking them up and spelling them properly.
bit of a slow start but got better as it went
This is one of those easy-to-read, gently funny books that I can return to over and over again when I'm in need of cheering up, along with anything by Danny Wallace, Dave Gorman, Douglas Adams or Rich Hall.
Tony Hawks took on a bet and set out to hitchhike around the perimeter of Ireland, with a small fridge in tow, in less than one month. As an aside, I'll never understand how people who write this sort of book remember all the details -- even with a journal, I'd still get confused and mix up who/what...
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