Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph
A Did Not Finish, British Literature, European Literature book. We charged up, cracked open a bottle of champagne and some...
With a top speed of 15 miles per hour and fuel efficiency of a penny a mile, a decommissioned milk float is the ideal vehicle for an epic journey between England's most easterly and westerly points. 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 from Lowestoft to Lands End. On the way, they discovered that their float needs to charge for eight hours for every 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 people's 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 Women's Institutes, succeeded in blacking out a Cornish campsite while charging their float (now dubbed The Mighty One), stayed with the monks at Buckfast Abbey where they undertook a vow of silence, and drove 500 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...
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- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9781848540156 / 1848540159
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I can count on one hand the number of books I have given up on in the last 5 years but this is one of them. Great idea but so boring and poorly written. The idea is that three men drive an electic milkfloat from Lowestoft to Lands End. I normally enjoy these road trip type books however this seems to be made up of nights staying in... We charged up, cracked open a bottle of champagne and some packs of cheese balls and then turned the float around to go home.Last line from Three Men on a Float: Across England at 15 mph. A bit of harmless fun, which flipped between amusing and informative. The poo tale pages had me laughing out loud (and in fits of giggles every few... You have to really like England to enjoy this book, in my opinion. The three men of the title are pleasant enough and provide some good information about various portions of England as they slowly traverse it in their 1958 electric milk float. (I looked online and found a photo of the three men and their float, which was very helpful...
