Reviews for Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph

The average rating for Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-22 00:00:00 Michael Birnholz "Can you get a speeding ticket in a milk float?" "Come to think of it, can you even get three men in a milk float in the first place?" "And, could they really drive it across England in under four weeks?" Can you imagine the length of th traffic james they caused ... "After planning the entire trip on the back of a beer mat and buying a 1958 decommissioned milk float on eBay, Dan, Ian and Pras set off from Lowestoft to Land's End. En route they blacked out an entire campsite whilst charging their float ('The Mighty One'), went to the pub, stalked the mythical beast of Bodmin Moor, went to the pub again and drove five hundred miles to Tintagel (King Arthur's birthplace), only to find it was closed - all in the name of discovering the real England, really slowly." ~~back cover A great little adventure -- the kind most of us only dream about dreaming up, let alone actually doing; the kind that becomes one of the highest points of your life, and never forgotten. Dan and Ian took it in turns to write a chapter, covering alternating days of traveling, foraging for electricity charges and a place to sleep and the people met along the way. Many of the days included each one's rambling thoughts about the trip, about the country they were passing through, and the philosophy (or not) of fast travel, tourism and the consequent smallness of the world. Each in their way (and Pras too, although he didn't write chapters) waxed lyrical about the beauty and treasures of their homeland, in a typically understated way. Not exactly a travel guide, and perhaps more comprehensible to the English rather than us Yanks, it was still a delight to join them as they rambled slowly from and to the farthest points of the island.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-28 00:00:00 Sarah Goosenberg This book boasts on its cover that Metro had reviewed it as "comic brilliance". Metro is a free newspaper mostly read and then chucked away by train commuters in southern UK. Metro is cobbled together from press releases and agency copy and you can rest assured that any "review" in this rag is at best a hasty rewrite of the publisher's press release. The book is not brilliant and it is not particularly funny either. Unless you find countless variations on the "how drunk was I last night?!" anecdote especially amusing. But this is not such a bad book; the best chapters (they're written alternately) are by Ian Vince who tends to address bigger topics like the Slow Movement, psychogeography (ley lines etc), green issues, and so on. While these aren't explored in any particular depth they are a welcome relief from all the laddish beer drinking, ciggie smoking, and battery charging which form the basis for Dan Kieran's chapters. The book gives us grounds for optimism that the UK is not as crap as some of us think it is, and that people generally are willing to help one another. That is a refreshing message amid widespread cynicism. So: on the whole... 3 Men In A Float is worth a try.