If I'd really been serious about getting to grips with my mid-life crisis then I'd have been better opting for a course of therapy than going off travelling. Or if I had to travel I'd have been better opting for somewhere warm with a beach! In an attempt to get to grips with a Big birthday Steve sets out from Oxford to explore what makes the English! well so English. His quirky humour is inspired by Tom Rolt who took to the canals on a similar journey immortalised in the book Narrow Boat" kick-starting the revival of Britain's waterways. Prepare for a generous helping of mayhem mishaps & the staple of every English summer: torrential rain. First published as " Fruit Flies Like a Banana" this revised edition with new material is published to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of Tom Rolt's own classic trip."