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Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000-Mile Car Journey Around Britain
By Ben Hatch
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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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This man should be certified mad. He undertakes a 8000 odd mile journey around the United Kingdom staying and visiting family attractions and staying in family hotels.
With two under four year olds...
Certifiable!
During the journey they have their car written off, he acquires and passes a kidney stone, and tragically loses his father to cancer. But through it all manages not to get divorced, develops and unbreakable bond with his two children.
A good read, and I'm glad that he has done it so I don't have to!