Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000 Miles Around Britain in a Vauxhall Astra

If you think writing a guidebook is easy, think againOC OCyHurry up, OCO I shout at Dinah, whilst on the overhead telly Ray MearsOCO Survival is playing extraordinarily loudly because Charlie sat on the volume button of the remote. The kids writhe about in the V05 shampoo they just spilt, laughing as the last of their clean clothes bite the dust, and IOCOm thinking: OCySurvive driving round England with two under 4s, staying at a different hotel each night and visiting four or five attractions a day and sometimes a restaurant in the evening. Sleep all in the same room, go to bed at 7 p.m. after having had no evening to yourself, wake up at 7 a.m. and do it all again the next day with the prospect of another 140 nights of the same OCo then come and tell me about survival in your khaki ****ing shorts, Ray.OCOThey were bored, broke, burned out and turning 40. So when Ben and his wife Dinah were approached to write a guidebook about family travel, they embraced the open road, ignoring friendsOCO warnings: 'One of you will come back chopped up in a bin bag in the roof box.'Featuring deadly puff adders, Billie PiperOCOs pyjamas and a friend of HitlerOCOs, itOCOs a story about love, death, falling out, moving on and growing up, and 8,000 misguided miles in a Vauxhall Astra."