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Marvellous! Thank you for a wonderful treat!
...felt as if I was traveling along with you, for better or worse. --authonomy.com by Jedward
"...your chapters read like the menu of a box of chocolates... It's smirkable, friendly stuff ... --authonomy.com Louise Galvin
Cannot stop laughing at this! This is soo funny. Am afraid to read more as my sides hurt from laughing... --authonomy.com BJ Chalmers
What a fun enlightning entertaining read! ...a book you can breeze through and have a grand time doing it. --authonomy.com Laurie A. Will
Bill Bryson had better get ready to move over!
--authonomy.com 'onthe dottedline'aka Tony Batliss
"manages the rare feat of being both hilarious and mildly educational... a genuinely good read... thoroughly enjoyed it..." --Motorhome Planet (website), March 11th, 2011
"...a series of heart warming tales... every campervan owner will relate to. I thoroughly recommend it... to accompany your next trip." --VWCampervan Blog (website), March 29th, 2010
" 'Uneasy Rider' is a pleasurable armchair excursion." --Big Al's Books & Pals review website, May 5th, 2011
"...when things go awry... Sommerville injects a philosophical sense of humor for some perspective on the situation" --The Displaced Nation, travel website, September 28th, 2011
"...a collection of tales from Alison's tours, and they're very amusing to read... highs and lows of her motorhome journeys..."
--Practical Motorhome Magazine, June 2010
...felt as if I was traveling along with you, for better or worse. --authonomy.com by Jedward
"...your chapters read like the menu of a box of chocolates... It's smirkable, friendly stuff ... --authonomy.com Louise Galvin
Cannot stop laughing at this! This is soo funny. Am afraid to read more as my sides hurt from laughing... --authonomy.com BJ Chalmers
What a fun enlightning entertaining read! ...a book you can breeze through and have a grand time doing it. --authonomy.com Laurie A. Will
Bill Bryson had better get ready to move over!
--authonomy.com 'onthe dottedline'aka Tony Batliss
"manages the rare feat of being both hilarious and mildly educational... a genuinely good read... thoroughly enjoyed it..." --Motorhome Planet (website), March 11th, 2011
"...a series of heart warming tales... every campervan owner will relate to. I thoroughly recommend it... to accompany your next trip." --VWCampervan Blog (website), March 29th, 2010
" 'Uneasy Rider' is a pleasurable armchair excursion." --Big Al's Books & Pals review website, May 5th, 2011
"...when things go awry... Sommerville injects a philosophical sense of humor for some perspective on the situation" --The Displaced Nation, travel website, September 28th, 2011
"...a collection of tales from Alison's tours, and they're very amusing to read... highs and lows of her motorhome journeys..."
--Practical Motorhome Magazine, June 2010
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The ultimate antidote-to-travel book! A European Odyssey where brakes fail on mountain passes ...a witch curses...Germans travel in a Tardis. If you ever thought a trip around Europe in a second-hand camper van would be fun, then this has been written for you. If not, just enjoy the ups and downs of the ride. Along the way, discover how to avoid being robbed more than once in Rome and why you shouldn't attempt to take a camper van into one of the pueblos blancos in Andalucia. 'Uneasy Rider' takes a humorous and wry view of independent travel. When people, places and campsites intermingle, things can never be dull. Adventure has never been our heroine's middle name, and travelling hundreds of miles in an unreliable vehicle doesn't help. With her imagination often in overdrive, luckily situations are not always as bad as they seem, but when things really do go wrong, somehow her level-headed Other Half always manages to save the day. This is a collection of sometimes harrowing but always entertaining tales experienced over several years and during times of so-called 'relaxation'. Though not a guidebook, there is good advice for first-timers, while experienced 'campervanistas' will nod their heads in recognition.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is definitely worth a read if you own or are thinking of owning a motorhome.
Why ?
Well certainly not because it is full of handy hints and technical doodads, it isn't
It is written from the perspective of a really 'normal' young lady about her and her husbands travels throughout Europe in their various wheeled homes.
It is written in a way every one( men and women ) can and will empathise with, telling of the ups, downs, trials and tribulations of motorhome life.
It is probably the most entertaining 'factual' book I have ever read.. To call it merely a travel book would be a travesty.
There is one down side.. It ended too soon and left me longing for more of the same !
Why ?
Well certainly not because it is full of handy hints and technical doodads, it isn't
It is written from the perspective of a really 'normal' young lady about her and her husbands travels throughout Europe in their various wheeled homes.
It is written in a way every one( men and women ) can and will empathise with, telling of the ups, downs, trials and tribulations of motorhome life.
It is probably the most entertaining 'factual' book I have ever read.. To call it merely a travel book would be a travesty.
There is one down side.. It ended too soon and left me longing for more of the same !
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I've never read a travel book, but I've travelled all my life. First as a child, country to country with my parents and then dragging my own growing family (now 5 children) around the world. One of the place I travelled and lived for three years was the UK, where despite my many misunderstands of the culture, I always found marvelous humour! This books is a perfect combination of that marvelous British humour and cultural misunderstandings. The author left me laughing more than once as I recongized many of my own mis-steps across other people's worlds!
Barbara
Barbara
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a genuine and cleverly written book with the authors enthusiasm shining through. Travelling with a family in a camper van must have many fraught moments but the author not only freely admits to them but shows the hilarious side to many of them. Who knew that a motorway ran alongside the ruins of Pompeii? This is a good laugh and great value. Highly recommended.
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Know just what you mean.
Being a chap thats done a lot of camping and caravanning both in this country and in France I have a good insight into the way this lady thinks. Read more
Published 4 months ago by speedtwin007
A really enjoyable read
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. As owners of a campervan I could relate to many of the situations described in the book and found myself laughing at many of the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by sue
Poorly written and very disappointing
After all the reviews I was expecting great things from this book, but was heartily disappointed. Vaguely amusing once in a while, this is mainly boring and incoherent ramblings. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Fennel
A Breath of Fresh Air!
I love travel books, and this one is a breath of fresh air!
Unlike some travel writers, the author really shows things as they are when travelling - the ups and downs,... Read more
Unlike some travel writers, the author really shows things as they are when travelling - the ups and downs,... Read more
Published 9 months ago by bookbabe
They should have stayed at home.
Like a previous reviewer I found this book irritating. Having recently bought a motorhome I looked forward to some interesting tales of trips through Europe, what I got were... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Kenneth
Loads of laughs!
Really, really, really enjoyed this book. It's written in such a way that you empathise with Allie immediately- anyone who has passport panics when handing it over to hotel staff... Read more
Published 10 months ago by E. Tipping
Not as good as expected
The writer doesn't seem to have enjoyed her holidays much! I wonder why, as she seems so scared of everything, does she keep going abroad? Read more
Published 11 months ago by Seward
Uneasy Rider
I love reading travel narratives. It seems most fit in two categories. The first are those that are upfront about focusing on the difficulties that often come with travel. Read more
Published 12 months ago by BigAl
Moan, Moan, Moan.
Page after page bewailing and belly-aching every place visited, deploring that in her view they were not as nice as the Isle of Wight. Why on earth did she go?
Published 12 months ago by Gosforth
Disappointing
This book irritated me immensely. Instead of the anticipated humorous anecdotes about the exploits of the English abroad, I found the plaintive whinings of a woman who really... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mrs. Karen M. Swift
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