While in Ireland for an international song competition, comedian Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker trying to thumb a lift with a fridge. Years later, following an alcohol-fuelled evening, he was bet that he couldn't hitch around the coast of Ireland with a fridge. This is what happened.
The author of Round Ireland with a Fridge takes readers on an hilarious adventure from England to Moldova, Northern Ireland, and eventually Israel as he attempts to beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis, is taken in ...
... Stephen Reid Des Reynolds Chris Richmond Andy Rickeard Kevin Roberts Michael Robertshaw Andrew Robinson Dan Robinson Ian Robinson Alun Roderick Geraint Rogers George Ronksley Katherine Rooney Noel Rooney Abigail Rose Adrian Runacres.
In reality, the chaotic story of Tony's hopelessly ill-conceived house purchase reads like the definitive guide to how not to buy a house in France.
But it's only after a chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get really strange. Is it really possible that together they could storm the Albanian charts? In One Hit Wonderland anything can happen .
You can take the man out of the city, but is the countryside ready for him? Comedian and born and bred townie, Tony Hawks is not afraid of a challenge - or indeed a good bet.
Here is his record of the unlikely pair's fortunes as they made their way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow, and back again to Dublin.
The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but-typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status asone of our funniest and most incisive writers.
This was the moment when my daughter, fearing for her dinner and my sanity, set off in the rain and darkness to enlist the help of Charlie Quinn, who lived a few doors away. Apparently Charlie Quinn was a schoolboy who was completely ...
It'll make you want to go in search of your own perfect pint." ---Adventure Travel "This is a lovely book, well written, full of humorous anecdotes and works both as a travelogue and as a guide to drinking in Ireland.
An evangelical pastor shares what it was like to spend one year living like Jesus and obeying his teachings.