Far from the Sodding Crowd: More Uncommonly British Days Out

by Alex Morris (Author), Alex Morris (Author), Jason Hazeley (Author), Joel Morris (Author), Robin Halstead (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.29

  Britons work longer hours than almost any other nation in Europe, taking fewer public holidays, laboring from Monday to Friday on the promise of a blissful weekend of fun. But how do we spend our precious days off? Slouching in vast herds beneath the neon canopy of some indistinguishable out-of-town shopping center, peering up horizonless aisles of self assembly wardrobes, and queuing for the vomitcoaster at a soulless theme park in a line that smells of teenagers and sugar. What the hell are we doing with our leisure time? When asked what you did at the weekend, will you mutter something about shelves and how hard it was to park? Or will you regale them with a mighty tale of your trip to the Somerset Shoe Museum?

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  Paperback
  2008

  $8.01

  Leave the hordes behind, pack some sandwiches and head off for a grand day out. Whether it's the National Fruit Collection or the pub where time stood still, Britain is stuffed full of surprising and idiosyncratic local attractions. The authors of Bollocks to Alton Towers , the bestselling celebration of the plucky underdogs of tourism, have ventured even farther off the beaten track and into the corners that corporate branding forgot, to bring you more unique, glorious and uncommonly British days out. Here you'll discover: the garden centre with a replica of Del Boy's living room; the joys of a Melton Mowbray pork pie pilgrimage; the rude charms of the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum; and, the Clowns' Gallery that paints a smile on Hackney's face. This book is a reminder of all the odd things that make the British what we are. A hidden, eccentric and joyous world of teas, fans, trains, shoes and puppets is waiting for you out there - far from the sodding crowd.