The number one non-fiction read that made John Cleese & Danny Wallace laugh & Terry Wogan & Richard Briers cry. If you think writing a guidebook is easy think again...A familys 8 000 miles round Britain in a Vauxhall Astra they were bored broke burned out & turning 40 so when Ben & Dinah saw the advert looking for a husband & wife team with young kids to write a guidebook about family travel around Britain they jumped at the chance. With naive visions of staring moodily across Coniston Water & savouring Cornish pasties they embark on a mad-cap five-month trip with daughter Phoebe four & son Charlie two embracing the freedom of the open road with a spirit of discovery & an industrial supply of baby wipes.