Full name: Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road With the First Grand Tourist

Also published as: The Grand Tour

Author: Tim Moore Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Humor, Travel, Non Fiction Cultures: Germany, France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780349114194 0349114196

They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours. Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th-century heyday, but someone had to do it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, Crudities, was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Similar books: Spanish Steps by Tim Moore Frost on my Moustache by Tim Moore Travels with My Donkey by Tim Moore Not Tonight, Josephine by George Mahood Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie America Unchained by Dave Gorman Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World by Dave Gorman Billy Connolly's Route 66 by Billy Connolly Road to Rouen by Ben Hatch La Bella Figura by Beppe Severgnini The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic by Kinky Friedman Traveling While Married by Mary-Lou Weisman The Titanic Awards by Doug Lansky Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington A Piano In The Pyrenees by Tony Hawks Stuff Parisians Like by Olivier Magny Secret Paris by Jacques Garance Paris Times Eight by Deirdre Kelly