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Road to Rouen
Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family's been attacked by a donkey, had a run-in with a death-cult and, after a near drowning and a calamitous wedding experience involving a British spy, his own marriage is in jeopardy. A combination of obsessions about mosquitoes, French gravel and vegetable theme parks mean it's a bumpy ride as Ben takes a stand against tyrannical French pool attendants, finds himself running with the bulls in Pamplona and almost starring in a snuff movie after a near fatal decision to climb into a millionaire's Chevrolet Blazer.
Funny and poignant, Road to Rouen asks important questions about life, marriage and whether it's ever acceptable to tape baguette to your children's legs to smuggle lunch into Disneyland Paris.
Funny and poignant, Road to Rouen asks important questions about life, marriage and whether it's ever acceptable to tape baguette to your children's legs to smuggle lunch into Disneyland Paris.
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 23, 2013
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Ben Hatch
11 books52 followersBen Hatch's latest novel is called THE P45 DIARIES: How To Get Sacked From Every Job in Britain. Currently being developed as a BBC sitcom, and a former BBC Radio 4 Book of The Year, it was previously titled The Lawnmower Celebrity and is based loosely on Ben's woeful experiences of his teens and 20s when his dad thought he was an oaf.
Ben was born in London and grew up there, in Manchester and also in Buckinghamshire, where he lived in a windmill that meant he was called Windy Miller at school for years, though he's not been scarred by this experience at all. He now lives in Brighton with his tiny wife Dinah, and two children, in a normal house. He likes cheese and is balding although he disguises this fact by spiking his hair to a great height to distract people he wishes to impress.
Ben (who is actually writing this and pretending to be someone else)has written for The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express among other newspapers. Previously he wrote ROAD TO ROUEN: A 10,000 Mile Journey In A Cheese-filled Passat that was a Number One bestseller and ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET? 8,000 Miles Round Britain In A Vauxhall Astra, a BBC Radio 2 Book of the Year, and also a Number One bestseller. It is also under developed as a film by Island Pictures.
Ben is the tallest Hatch who ever lived (5ft 9in) and is the son of Sir David Hatch, the radio performer and producer whose shadow Ben doesn't at all feel under. He also maintains that he knows the cure for the common cold (tweet him at @BenHatch to find this out) and that one of his relatives was John Couch-Adams who discovered the planet Neptune. Apparently, his aunty told him.
Many years ago his novel the International Gooseberry was published by Orion. It was about a hapless backpacker with a huge ungovernable toenail. It was described as "hysterical and surprisingly sad" by the Daily Express. Ben Hatch was on the long-list of Granta's 2003 list of the most promising 20 young authors in the UK, but missed out on final inclusion possibly because of the toenail stuff. In association with his wife Dinah, he has also written three guidebooks for Frommer's.
You can visit Ben Hatch at https://www.facebook.com/BenHatchAuthor although his page is a bit rubbish.
Ben was born in London and grew up there, in Manchester and also in Buckinghamshire, where he lived in a windmill that meant he was called Windy Miller at school for years, though he's not been scarred by this experience at all. He now lives in Brighton with his tiny wife Dinah, and two children, in a normal house. He likes cheese and is balding although he disguises this fact by spiking his hair to a great height to distract people he wishes to impress.
Ben (who is actually writing this and pretending to be someone else)has written for The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express among other newspapers. Previously he wrote ROAD TO ROUEN: A 10,000 Mile Journey In A Cheese-filled Passat that was a Number One bestseller and ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET? 8,000 Miles Round Britain In A Vauxhall Astra, a BBC Radio 2 Book of the Year, and also a Number One bestseller. It is also under developed as a film by Island Pictures.
Ben is the tallest Hatch who ever lived (5ft 9in) and is the son of Sir David Hatch, the radio performer and producer whose shadow Ben doesn't at all feel under. He also maintains that he knows the cure for the common cold (tweet him at @BenHatch to find this out) and that one of his relatives was John Couch-Adams who discovered the planet Neptune. Apparently, his aunty told him.
Many years ago his novel the International Gooseberry was published by Orion. It was about a hapless backpacker with a huge ungovernable toenail. It was described as "hysterical and surprisingly sad" by the Daily Express. Ben Hatch was on the long-list of Granta's 2003 list of the most promising 20 young authors in the UK, but missed out on final inclusion possibly because of the toenail stuff. In association with his wife Dinah, he has also written three guidebooks for Frommer's.
You can visit Ben Hatch at https://www.facebook.com/BenHatchAuthor although his page is a bit rubbish.
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July 5, 2013
Road to Rouen is a well written, lighthearted and funny book. There was so much I could relate to and it really made me want to get a car and travel France. Ben's family is lovely and made me laugh so much! Such a delight!
January 23, 2020
Another warts-and-all travelogue from Ben Hatch. Same format as 'Are we nearly there yet?'. A very easy read in a few of sittings. The book will certainly make you laugh but more than that it will make you squirm. Full-marks to the author for putting it all out there even though at times it does make him seem selfish and smug. Poor Dinah.
So Ben - how did it go with the builder?
So Ben - how did it go with the builder?
October 21, 2014
I have just found Ben Hatch's books and they are simply fabulous. His writing technique is quite personal and therefore draws the reader in to engaging their own emotions in order to empathise. Lovely family thread throughout this travel book, which gives it a multi-dimensional aspect. I genuinely didn't want it to end.
May 27, 2018
a story of a family trip around France - humourous in parts and a little moving in others, but I could not help feeling by the end that the author is a bit of an idiot
February 20, 2024
Thought this was a fun travelbook about France, but France is mentioned very little. It's more about the writers marital issues and midlife crisis, which I wasn't interested in.
June 7, 2013
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that my bio says "Modelling myself on Bill Bryson...minus the beard". Having just read Road to Rouen, I'm tempted to change this to "Modelling myself on Ben Hatch...minus the sticky-up hair".
A follow-up to the very amusing, Are We Nearly There Yet?, this travelogue sees Ben, his wife Dinah and their two young children squeezed between a multitude of 'squishy bags' (Ben's latest packing method) in a cheese-filled Passat which requires a golf putter to prop the boot open and a tea flask to keep the glove box shut.
They have been commissioned to write a guidebook about France but the 10,000 mile journey is hardly a journey of elegant dining and sumptuous accommodation. Spreading cheese onto stale baguettes using an AA membership card, visiting far too many child-unfriendly châteaux and losing the will to live on a considerable number of 'petits trains', the Hatch family provide the rest of us with many laughs and a smidgen of unavoidable schadenfreude. Mind you, I don't know why I was laughing so much as the stressful map-reading I had to do around Rouen will be etched in my memory for many a year.
Ben Hatch has a huge talent. His dialogue is witty, his observations are sharp and his sense of the absurd is acute. He effortlessly takes his readers with him on this journey: we all budge up on the back seat, keen to be part of the adventure. What takes the book up another notch, however, is the parallel story of Ben and Dinah's relationship. In Are we Nearly There Yet? Ben's relationship with his father is explored as he comes to terms with his father's failing health. In Road to Rouen we discover how Ben and Dinah met, their early years together and, as they travel round France trying to beat the predicted arrival times of the SatNav, we accompany them on their quest to work out where their lives should go next.
This book is a great holiday read. Mad donkeys, jobsworth pool attendants, vegetable theme parks: it has it all. Put your feet up after the children are asleep, open a bottle of vin rouge and a packet of nail-splitting pistachio nuts and let Ben Hatch take you across the Channel for a trip to remember.
A follow-up to the very amusing, Are We Nearly There Yet?, this travelogue sees Ben, his wife Dinah and their two young children squeezed between a multitude of 'squishy bags' (Ben's latest packing method) in a cheese-filled Passat which requires a golf putter to prop the boot open and a tea flask to keep the glove box shut.
They have been commissioned to write a guidebook about France but the 10,000 mile journey is hardly a journey of elegant dining and sumptuous accommodation. Spreading cheese onto stale baguettes using an AA membership card, visiting far too many child-unfriendly châteaux and losing the will to live on a considerable number of 'petits trains', the Hatch family provide the rest of us with many laughs and a smidgen of unavoidable schadenfreude. Mind you, I don't know why I was laughing so much as the stressful map-reading I had to do around Rouen will be etched in my memory for many a year.
Ben Hatch has a huge talent. His dialogue is witty, his observations are sharp and his sense of the absurd is acute. He effortlessly takes his readers with him on this journey: we all budge up on the back seat, keen to be part of the adventure. What takes the book up another notch, however, is the parallel story of Ben and Dinah's relationship. In Are we Nearly There Yet? Ben's relationship with his father is explored as he comes to terms with his father's failing health. In Road to Rouen we discover how Ben and Dinah met, their early years together and, as they travel round France trying to beat the predicted arrival times of the SatNav, we accompany them on their quest to work out where their lives should go next.
This book is a great holiday read. Mad donkeys, jobsworth pool attendants, vegetable theme parks: it has it all. Put your feet up after the children are asleep, open a bottle of vin rouge and a packet of nail-splitting pistachio nuts and let Ben Hatch take you across the Channel for a trip to remember.
June 20, 2013
I read Ben Hatch’s last book “Are we nearly there yet” alternating between tears of laughter and sadness. In that book he deftly recounted the tale of travelling around Britain along with his long-suffering wife and his - frankly - feral, yet lovable kids. While in the background he dealt with his father’s struggle agains cancer.
This book is a return to familiar territory. This time he takes his family on the road to Rouen as they travel through France. Again it’s hilarious fare. As ripe and as pervasive as the cheese they travel with. The children’s reactions to a salad-themed ride and a museum of onions as utterly priceless. While the dangers of letting your donkey eat from the side of the road bring unexpectedly violent results.
The humor is charming and unexpected. While this time he doesn’t have the backbone of his father’s illness to add a bittersweet edge to proceedings Hatch instead presents us with the crumbling relationship between him and his wife. Along the way I was yelling at them both as they put strain on their 20 year marriage. Although I only know them from the pages of the book I fell in love with this odd couple and their kids and I was hoping for them to pull it together in the face adversity.
This is a fun read with real emotional weight, uncomfortable honesty and a lovingly lyrical turn of phrase throughout. The Ben, Dinah, Phoebe and Charlie will become like family for the reader by the end of the book. I loved it and I will never look at a can of Campbell’s soup the same way again.
This book is a return to familiar territory. This time he takes his family on the road to Rouen as they travel through France. Again it’s hilarious fare. As ripe and as pervasive as the cheese they travel with. The children’s reactions to a salad-themed ride and a museum of onions as utterly priceless. While the dangers of letting your donkey eat from the side of the road bring unexpectedly violent results.
The humor is charming and unexpected. While this time he doesn’t have the backbone of his father’s illness to add a bittersweet edge to proceedings Hatch instead presents us with the crumbling relationship between him and his wife. Along the way I was yelling at them both as they put strain on their 20 year marriage. Although I only know them from the pages of the book I fell in love with this odd couple and their kids and I was hoping for them to pull it together in the face adversity.
This is a fun read with real emotional weight, uncomfortable honesty and a lovingly lyrical turn of phrase throughout. The Ben, Dinah, Phoebe and Charlie will become like family for the reader by the end of the book. I loved it and I will never look at a can of Campbell’s soup the same way again.
August 26, 2013
This is an amusing book that tells the story of a three month, 10,000 mile road trip in France by a family of four. I love a road trip in France so was initially a little bit jealous of the Hatch family plan to spend their whole summer on the road in France, however the more I read the more I appreciated our French road trips without children. With a different hotel every night and all day spent in the car it must have been quite stressful at times, but Ben writes with great affection for his lovely sounding children and wife, and despite the odd hiccup they certainly seemed to have fun most of the time. Can you imagine the unloading and loading, packing and repacking of their squishy bags every day, not to mention the laundry? No, me neither! Chapeau (hats off) to Ben and his family. Having been on many French school trips and experienced the French idea of fun facts for kids when visiting chateaux, I was able to chuckle along with some of Ben’s descriptions of their Tourist board arranged days out (the poor kids!).
This book was the perfect read to accompany our drive from Poitou-Charentes in the west to Calais in the north of France, via Rouen. This was also one of those books that I couldn’t help reading bits out to my husband as we drove along, until he reminded me it would rather spoil his enjoyment when he reads it (which he is doing now). I really enjoyed Ben’s writing style and his honest account of the good, the bad and the ugly bits, so have also added his previous book Are We Nearly There Yet? to my ‘To Read’ list.
This book was the perfect read to accompany our drive from Poitou-Charentes in the west to Calais in the north of France, via Rouen. This was also one of those books that I couldn’t help reading bits out to my husband as we drove along, until he reminded me it would rather spoil his enjoyment when he reads it (which he is doing now). I really enjoyed Ben’s writing style and his honest account of the good, the bad and the ugly bits, so have also added his previous book Are We Nearly There Yet? to my ‘To Read’ list.
June 23, 2013
This is a gloriously funny book, and a delight to read. The style is similar to Ben Hatch's previous book, 'Are We Nearly There Yet?', with the story structured around the family's travels through France this time, with all kinds of humorous scrapes and escapades along the way.
In 'Are We Nearly There Yet?' the illness and death of the author's father provided a backdrop to the travelling story, and gave the sweet, funny family moments a particular resonance, because we were made painfully aware of the fragility of life and love.
This book is also about family. With the inclusion of little snippets of backstory throughout, it reflects on how our first family - parents and siblings - shapes our identity. But it also shows how adult love, or married love, can allow us to evolve and change within that, can allow us to be the same and not the same, and hold onto us tight while we do that.
I thought it gave a fascinating and moving insight into marriage - and what to do when your dreams seem to be falling out of reach.
Ben Hatch's books are full of warmth, and there's an honesty and generosity about them which is quite disarming. I've missed the lovely Hatch family since finishing the book, and hope they'll be back with more adventures soon.
July 25, 2013
I just finished Road to Rouen and was pleasantly surprised by this previously unknown to me author, Ben Hatch, and hadn't been aware of his travelogues. I'd been recommended the book via twitter and being a cheapskate (like the author I am also a hotel breakfast thief and juice box smuggler - read the book for more!) bought it on the summer sale.
The author's strongest point is his ability to integrate the reader fully into his environment. Ben is a well-developed comic writer, who builds his comic skits skits seamlessly into the heft of the overall story. I definitely enjoyed the funny skits and the descriptions of French customs - who hasn't at some time wondered around in some far flung French department with a hungry child at exactly 14.02 only to be told 'non, non Madame, ze lunch, she is over!', but I most enjoyed the depictions of family life and the intimacy within a family, fart jokes and all.
Ben Hatch has an uncanny ability to remind you that it is precisely those moments of intimacy that create family; not the trips or the presents or even the Disney dream.
I'm looking forward to the further adventures of the Hatch family and to watching Ben develop his non-comic writing more.
The author's strongest point is his ability to integrate the reader fully into his environment. Ben is a well-developed comic writer, who builds his comic skits skits seamlessly into the heft of the overall story. I definitely enjoyed the funny skits and the descriptions of French customs - who hasn't at some time wondered around in some far flung French department with a hungry child at exactly 14.02 only to be told 'non, non Madame, ze lunch, she is over!', but I most enjoyed the depictions of family life and the intimacy within a family, fart jokes and all.
Ben Hatch has an uncanny ability to remind you that it is precisely those moments of intimacy that create family; not the trips or the presents or even the Disney dream.
I'm looking forward to the further adventures of the Hatch family and to watching Ben develop his non-comic writing more.
January 15, 2014
If you have ever had the wondered what a driving holiday in France would be like.
In a small car.
With children.
And with no promise of a book contract to actually pay for the trip, then Ben Hatch has taken that decision for you and kindly documented it.
In another slightly madcap trip he takes his wife and two children off to the continent, and lurches from mishap to disaster. He tries to find the smelliest cheese, takes the children to a vegetable theme park, countless chateaux, goes to a family wedding where he smokes dope, runs with the bulls in Pamplona, survives a marital crisis and almost ends up as an extra in a porn movie. After making it up with his wife, they continue their journey into Paris, where they survive the hell that is the Arc de Triomphe, and make it to the hotel. The final day involves smuggling food past the Disney staff, including strapping baguettes to his children’s legs.
I like the way that he writes, it is a very amusing book. Not necessarily one to be read in public, unless you can stifle the laughs! And should you drive 10,000 miles around France, with a packed car and small children? Yes. Unless you value your sanity, then no...
In a small car.
With children.
And with no promise of a book contract to actually pay for the trip, then Ben Hatch has taken that decision for you and kindly documented it.
In another slightly madcap trip he takes his wife and two children off to the continent, and lurches from mishap to disaster. He tries to find the smelliest cheese, takes the children to a vegetable theme park, countless chateaux, goes to a family wedding where he smokes dope, runs with the bulls in Pamplona, survives a marital crisis and almost ends up as an extra in a porn movie. After making it up with his wife, they continue their journey into Paris, where they survive the hell that is the Arc de Triomphe, and make it to the hotel. The final day involves smuggling food past the Disney staff, including strapping baguettes to his children’s legs.
I like the way that he writes, it is a very amusing book. Not necessarily one to be read in public, unless you can stifle the laughs! And should you drive 10,000 miles around France, with a packed car and small children? Yes. Unless you value your sanity, then no...
June 16, 2014
This book is fun. Ben Hatch took his wife and two young children on a summer trip round France with the intention of writing a travel guide. The result was this high emotional rollercoaster read of life on the road with a family. Half way through the journey the author had a near breakdown (of the nervous type) and disappeared to Spain, leaving his long suffering wife with the children somewhere in France. Hatch is very honest about his shortcomings and I'm glad it all worked out. From a writer's point of view I have heaps of empathy with the author. A long line of book rejections followed him across the Channel, his agent suggested that he self publish and then he was treated to the agent's silence. It all struck a true chord with me.
I'm not sure I know much more about France than I did before reading this other than not to visit an onion museum but that isn't the intention of the book. It is fun.
I'm not sure I know much more about France than I did before reading this other than not to visit an onion museum but that isn't the intention of the book. It is fun.
June 3, 2013
I knew I'd enjoy Road to Rouen because I'd loved Ben's previous book, Are We Nearly There Yet? It was then perhaps inadvisable for me to take a "quick peek" at my planned holiday reading because two days later I'd finished the book!
I enjoy reading travelogue type books but whilst some are little more than a collection of amusing anecdotes, Road to Rouen is much more than this. There are some genuinely hilarious passages, my favourites involve a donkey called Taquin and baguette smuggling. However, the book also contains some touching, poignant moments that moved me to tears and elevated it above the usual travel memoirs. l'm looking forward to the next Hatch family trip now (and quietly blaming Ben for worsening my already present addiction to cheese!)
I enjoy reading travelogue type books but whilst some are little more than a collection of amusing anecdotes, Road to Rouen is much more than this. There are some genuinely hilarious passages, my favourites involve a donkey called Taquin and baguette smuggling. However, the book also contains some touching, poignant moments that moved me to tears and elevated it above the usual travel memoirs. l'm looking forward to the next Hatch family trip now (and quietly blaming Ben for worsening my already present addiction to cheese!)
January 23, 2014
I really enjoyed 'Are We Nearly There Yet?' and was looking forward to the family's foray in France but I found it quite disappointing.
The book was meant to be a travelogue of a holiday around France with 2 young children in a Passat but more emphasis was given to the crumbling relationship between Ben and his wife. This can be entertaining when it's fiction but makes for sometimes uncomfortable reading when you know it's a real-life couple. I also think that some of the conversations between Ben & Dinah were too much about 'In-Jokes' which are funny to the people they're 'In' with but not that amusing to anyone else!
As the rating suggests, it was just 'OK'.
The book was meant to be a travelogue of a holiday around France with 2 young children in a Passat but more emphasis was given to the crumbling relationship between Ben and his wife. This can be entertaining when it's fiction but makes for sometimes uncomfortable reading when you know it's a real-life couple. I also think that some of the conversations between Ben & Dinah were too much about 'In-Jokes' which are funny to the people they're 'In' with but not that amusing to anyone else!
As the rating suggests, it was just 'OK'.
June 22, 2013
Loved it! I had a smile on my face almost constantly, and I challenge anyone not to laugh out loud at Taquin the donkey and the absurd notion of smuggling baguettes taped onto the children's legs into Eurodisney!In addition to the humour, the story is all the more engaging with Ben's vivid descriptions of his wife and family (From one MFL teacher to another good luck Dinah-negotiating the Arc de Triomph roundabout is nothing compared to tackling OFSTED:) Please let's hear more of your family travels soon....
June 5, 2013
What else can I give this but 5 stars? I would feel an utter misery guts for even considering it. 'Are we nearly there yet' was a favourite of mine last year and this is a worthy - if slightly less detailed (French attractions make our Bakelite Museum seem like the V&A)successor. Both books are very funny, but also moving and very honest homages to family life; not just the current Hatch brood but his parents and sibling relationships.
Great holiday reads both - do give them a try.
Great holiday reads both - do give them a try.
June 29, 2013
I met Ben via Twitter and can't get enough of his fantastic, astutely observant sense of humour! So, how could I not read his books?!
Road to Rouen is a hilarious masterpiece! You would not only get an exceedingly close look at how bright and funny Ben, his wife Dinah and their two kids- Pheobe and Charlie,are, but also an insightful look into France, which is as honest as it is entertaining. If you love France and British comedy - read this!
Road to Rouen is a hilarious masterpiece! You would not only get an exceedingly close look at how bright and funny Ben, his wife Dinah and their two kids- Pheobe and Charlie,are, but also an insightful look into France, which is as honest as it is entertaining. If you love France and British comedy - read this!
August 19, 2013
My second of Ben Hatch's travel books and this one is just a hilarious, heart warming and a blooming great read as the equally excellent 'Are We Nearly There Yet?' If you like reading about real life family travel and laughing and sighing with the ups and downs of being away from home on 'Holiday' then I can't recommend Ben's work more highly, Great stuff!
June 9, 2013
Funny and honest stories about a family travelling in France. Hilarious tales including a donkey and smuggling into Disneyland. I thoroughly enjoyed both 'Are We Nearly There Yet?' and 'Road to Rouen'. I sincerely hope that there is more travelling on the horizon!
June 23, 2013
I read Ben's previous book and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I was really looking forward to reading Road to Rouen too, and I wasn't disappointed. A very funny book, that also had me close to tears at times. I think anyone with children will understand. I hope Ben goes on to write more.
August 22, 2013
Feel sad to have finished this wonderfully, human, family adventure. Laugh out loud, thought provoking, tear jerking-an emotional roller coaster, which has made me love Ben Hatch, all the more. Brilliant! Eagerly anticipating the Italian adventure...
November 15, 2013
Unexpectedly dull and not funny. Most of it is recreation of dialogue between the missus and his two kids - alot of which is so banal. The bits that were about France were okay. Not the book I hoped for.
June 5, 2013
A fantastic, funny and frank read. Ben & co's hilarious antics kept me hooked from start to finish. I can't wait for the family's next holiday!
June 15, 2013
A nice book for the holidays
June 28, 2013
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Read it in two sittings. Entertaining and humourous throughout. Some touching family moments too.
December 31, 2014
Got bored and didn't finish this book.
August 20, 2025
Absolutely hilarious and heartwarming!
"Road to Rouen" is a brilliantly funny and wonderfully honest travel memoir that had me laughing out loud from start to finish. Ben Hatch’s misadventures in France complete with donkeys, death-cults, vegetable theme parks, and the occasional spy are told with such wit and charm that you can’t help but be swept along for the ride. Beyond the comedy, though, there’s a poignant undercurrent about family, marriage, and the chaos of parenting that makes the book both relatable and moving.
If you enjoy sharp humor, unexpected twists, and a heartfelt look at what it really means to juggle love, family, and adventure, this is an absolute must-read. I couldn’t put it down!
"Road to Rouen" is a brilliantly funny and wonderfully honest travel memoir that had me laughing out loud from start to finish. Ben Hatch’s misadventures in France complete with donkeys, death-cults, vegetable theme parks, and the occasional spy are told with such wit and charm that you can’t help but be swept along for the ride. Beyond the comedy, though, there’s a poignant undercurrent about family, marriage, and the chaos of parenting that makes the book both relatable and moving.
If you enjoy sharp humor, unexpected twists, and a heartfelt look at what it really means to juggle love, family, and adventure, this is an absolute must-read. I couldn’t put it down!
April 8, 2021
It's a fun book to read. Easy and lighthearted and it's a non-fiction piece. Base on the author's experience travelling to France with his wife and 2 kids for the summer. He travels for 3 months to write a travel book and also hoping to find inspiration for his new book. Witty comments and emotional tantrums are normal in their day to day lives with the kids.
January 13, 2018
Picked this up in a second-hand shop because it looked interesting and funny, unfortunately it was neither. I certainly didn't learn much about France from reading this. Not for me.
September 10, 2018
this is a readable book which centres more around the activities than the places visited.
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