Synopsis
After planning the entire trip on the back of a beer mat, buying a 1958 decommissioned milk float on eBay and charging its tired batteries, the team set off fromLowestoft to Lands End.On the way, they discovered that their float needs to charge for eight hours forevery two hours it spends on the road. Relying on the milk of human kindness, they were at the mercy of strangers every night, sometimes even using other peoples cookers just to keep the show on the road.En route, they were treated to tea and rock cakes by the Vice President of the WI, succeeded in blacking out a Cornish campsite whilst charging their float (now dubbed The Mighty One), stayed with the monks at Buckfast Abbey wherethey undertook avow of silence,and, drove five hundred miles to Tintagel, the birth place of King Arthur, only to find it had closed all in the name of discovering lost England. You may be thinking: why on earth dont thesemen drive a car like normal people?But this is no ordinary journey. This is an eccentric odyssey through the English countryside.Three Men in a Float" is about all things English and the pleasure to be had if you are prepared to slow down, get out of your car and go off the beaten track.
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À propos de l?auteur
Dan Kieran was the editor of the original best-selling Crap trilogy: Crap Towns, Crap Jobs and Crap Holidays and is currently writing I Fought the Law. He is Deputy Editor of The Idler and has written for The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Observer and The Sunday Times. Ian Vince is the author of The Myway Code, written with Dan Kieran, and Britain: What a State. His previous writing credits include Radio 4 and World Service comedy sketch shows, Channel 4s Bremner, Bird and Fortune and BBC3s forthcoming comedy sketch show School Run. In print, he has edited a number of magazines and is currently Contributing Editor for The Idler.
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