Move Along, Please Audiobook
Move Along, Please Audiobook
- Richard Burnip
- Cornerstone Digital
- 2014-01-23
- 11 h 9 min
Summary:
At 10.41am on a Tuesday morning hours in September, Tag Mason boards the quantity 1A bus at Land’s End in Cornwall. Forty-six buses and eleven days later on he disembarks at John O’Groats in Scotland. Move Along Make sure you is his accounts of that gruelling 1100-mile odyssey; a paint-by-bus-numbers portrait of Britain.
Along the way he appointments everywhere in the village where in fact the internet enters Britain towards the metropolitan sprawl of Birmingham (motivation for the Two Towers in Lord from the Rings). He samples about Move Along, Make sure you staples from the English diet plan from curry towards the deep-fried Mars Bar, and uncovers countless exciting facts about his indigenous land – do you realize, for example, that Crewe Alexandra football club is named after the wife of Edward VII, that Loch Ness could contain the water from all the lakes in Britain and Wales, or that there is a village which rejoices in the name Tongue End?
Set against the setting of 2000 years of history and with a complete supporting cast attracted from that a lot of unusual of varieties, the Great British isles Public, this is actually the unmissable tale of a man rediscovering his country in all its idiosyncratic glory.