It's unfair to say that pubs are mentioned too many times in this book. They're mentioned, but only because they're part of the British culture. This book has a lot of good parts to it like when Mr. Simon tries to take a shower in one of the B and B's he's staying at and can't get the water to work. The server in the restaurant tells him that he needs to pull a cord that's located by a door where you enter the room. Hahahaha - I can imagine something like this happening. Similar things have happened to me.
I was disappointed in this, having loved "Jupiter". Reading "Rolling Through The Isles" was more like spending a couple of hours in the pub with a verbose and opinionated old bloke. I couldn't wait for it to end.
A travel down the memory lane, at times so funny I couldn't read it aloud (like free range pâtés). The bit about Belfast was too long, but a nice read all the same.