Round Ireland With A Fridge

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  • Author : Tony Hawks
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • Creator : Tony Hawks
  • EAN : 9781846570940
  • Format : Abridged
  • Format : Audiobook
  • ISBN : 1846570948
  • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
  • Label : Audiobooks
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Audiobooks
  • Package Dimensions : 0.94 inches (Height) x 5.59 inches (Length) x 0.44 pounds (Weight) x 4.88 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2007-07-05
  • Publisher : Audiobooks
  • Release Date : 2007-07-05
  • SKU : 8708705
  • Studio : Audiobooks

Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker, trying to thumb a lift, but with a fridge. This seemed amazingly optimistic. Until one night, heavy with drink, he finds himself arguing about Ireland with a friend. The next morning there is a note by the bed. The document was signed. The bet was made.

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On his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator. For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillow-side: a friend wagered 100 pounds that Hawks wouldn't travel Ireland for a month with a refrigerator at his side. Out of this stupid premise, a ridiculously amusing book was born. Quickly discovered by the Irish media, the thumbing Englishman finds that he and his box fridge are elevated to celebrity status, and there's no dearth of rides, places to stay or goofy people to meet, from kings to spoons players to locals who take his fridge surfing. As insightful about the strange inner workings of Hawk's mind as it is about charming peculiarities of Irishmen--it's doubtful that Hawks would have been similarly embraced by Germans, Italians, or the French--Round Ireland with a Fridge is an entirely silly, heart-warming tale told in a rollicking funny and refreshing style. --Melissa Rossi

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