` Looks like not many tourists visit St Pierre et Miquelon, ` I mutter excitedly to Pip. ` That is why this trip is going to be so brilliant.` He looks at me questioningly. I am distracted by Gabriel`s unusually pallid face. ` Oh my God, he`s going to be sick.` Rosie set out on a tour of the French Overseas Departments & Territories (the ` Dom- Toms`) with her husband & four young children, partly to make a documentary series but also to show the children it is possible to survive fourteen weeks without Hannah Montana. From Martinique to Reunion, crossing five continents, they eat stewed iguana, 400 croissants &
- since the budget is small
- copious amounts of Campbell`s soup. Candid, darkly humorous & slightly mad, cut with a dash of French history, this memoir offers insights, amusement & hope for anyone who has ever travelled en famille.