Clancy Goes to France France on the Back Roads in a Classic Car Travels With Lola Book 1 edition by Emma Kate Herbert Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Reader email “...Please keep writing, you have a rare gift in making people be at your side through all your adventures.”
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The richly detailed beauty of France unfolds along the back roads as single mum Emma and three-year-old Lola embark upon a remarkable road trip in honour of her father. The journey, which begins as a fundraising challenge in aid of Multiple Sclerosis, is testament to the reliability of Clancy, a Peugeot 504 with a colourful history of traversing hundreds of thousands of miles in extreme conditions.
Blending a mother's devotion to her loved ones and the thrill of the open road, Clancy Goes to France is an inspiring story of how life should be about shared experiences and the appreciation of simple pleasures. This travel memoir celebrates the lessons passed on from parent to child and illustrates how a love of travel binds the generations of a family. The story lends itself as a travel guide to France's most alluring destinations and includes wonderful descriptions of the places they meandered through. The delightful writing about The Loire, Provence, Aquitaine and the Pyrenees allows you to experience the stunning scenery and culture in each region, letting your imagination conjure images and feelings that you are perhaps joining them, a world away from the hustle and bustle of modern life.
Emma's approach to life gives an inspirational and motivational book about a single parent who overcomes challenges faced on a road trip around France.
Lovers of travel writing will be taken along for the ride with Emma, who has primarily created a wonderful travel memoir for her father. Being allowed into her world for this trip is a lovely insight into the joys of travelling in Europe.
What People Are Saying About Clancy Goes To France
"...Emma’s journey, with the love for her father and their car is so inspiring and heart-warming. I must meet Clancy!" - Janis Winehouse (mother of singer Amy Winehouse)
“...A wonderful story. I was sad to finish the book”
“...Please keep writing, you have a rare gift in making people be at your side through all your adventures.”
“...What a wonderful book.! Informative,funny,felt I was there on her journey with Clancy. A must read if you enjoy travel books.”
“... a pleasure to read!”
These readers have been taken on a trip around France with Emma and Lola, if you'd like to join them for the ride here are some of the places they visited.
The Camargue, Provence
Pont du Gard, Provence
Onzain, The Loire Valley
The Pyrenees
Ceret, Pyrenees Orientales
Collioure, Pyrenees Orientales
Parentis en Born, Aquitaine
Pierrefonds. Oise
Dune de Pilat, Aquitaine
Why not sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!
Clancy Goes to France France on the Back Roads in a Classic Car Travels With Lola Book 1 edition by Emma Kate Herbert Religion Spirituality eBooks
A delightful saga of Mother and 3 year old daughter traveling in an antique auto through France raising funds for MS. Her father has MS thus her reason for the journey. Keeping mainly to back roads and campgrounds with cabins they travel slowly in the auto named Clancy. The child is amazingly patient for so much traveling, she is very intelligent and inquisitive. Emma is nervous having never traveled this way in the old auto without GPS or air conditioning for the hot days. I found the book to be thoroughly enjoyable and look forward to their next journey.Product details
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Clancy Goes to France France on the Back Roads in a Classic Car Travels With Lola Book 1 edition by Emma Kate Herbert Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This memoir about an unusual road trip in France ticked so many of my boxes I couldn’t wait to start reading it.
We join Emma, her 3 year old daughter Lola and their 40 year old Peugeot (Clancy) as they make a 3000 mile road trip around France, recording what they see every day to share with Emma’s father whose MS and cancer mean he is unable to return to France. I felt it was a lovely thing to share her experiences while fundraising and raising awareness about MS along the way. I loved the author’s passion for her subject, her determination and her honesty about the ups and downs she experienced and although I’ve read many travel memoirs in France this one really does offer something a bit different.
The responsibility on Emma’s shoulders as the only adult in charge of a vintage car, a three year old, plus all the driving, route planning and decision-making made for an exhausting challenge where she often struggled to live up to her own expectations of her dream trip. I think she did a marvellous job and really shouldn’t be disappointed at what they failed to see, as from personal experience no matter how many road trips you take in France, there is always more to see.
The pace of the book was good and her descriptions of France kept me interested, but I did struggle a bit with the flow, as I felt there was a lot of unnecessary repetition in the narrative. While this never stopped me wanting to read more, I would have had a more enjoyable read without the sense of déjà vu.
What I loved more than anything was Emma’s attitude of seizing the moment and taking the adventure and I couldn’t help feeling Lola is one very lucky little lady to have a Mum like Emma and I hope they continue to travel and make memories together. I also hope that through this book she is able to encourage others to make their own memories.
I was sent a copy of this book by the author for an honest review.
I received a free copy of this book from the author for an honest review. I love to read memoirs and about other's travels and this book is a nice mix of those two genres. This book tells of single parent Emma and her little daughter Lola's travels through France on the back roads. Lola's three and she will have her fourth birthday when they are on the thirty-fith day of their trip. They had been planning their trip six months. The trip was for charity and in one of her dad's cars. Her dad suffers with MS. It would be an adventure, she didn't envisage everything would go smoothly, even with all the planning, and that's the whole point, it would be an adventure and she'd just take it as it comes. Clancy is not just an oldish car-he's a forty year old vintage car! Their road trip will cover 3,000 miles. Clancy has already got 1 million km on the clock so she had no worries about him letting her down. Lola knows what's coming, she's excited, she has been on a shorter trip to France before with Emma and Clancy. This is lovely descriptive writing of the area, it sounds idyllic and provides heart warming reading. I always love to read about foods in my reading and in here the author makes it sound yummy, you can almost smell the food. I love this writing about special places they visited. Her father was diagnosed with MS at the age of thirty-nine. Now he has another condition so travelling is much more difficult for him. Although her dad can't go, Emma decides to make the trip, she could take pictures as she goes to show her dad and a money raising idea is born too. This book is well presented and accurate. It provides nice easy reading, very pleasant. She tells about travelling by ferry, they can sleep undisturbed in a cabin as opposed to packed tight in a plane. Entertainment in the evening etc-all this info about the ferry is all good info to me as I've never been on a ferry, I didn't know all of this. All this sounds lovely, a great choice of words, lovely travel writing here. Descriptions of areas sound wonderful. She tells that she had lived in Thailand in the past. I found I was wanting a bit more information about this as she gave a couple of tasters but it wasn't really expanded on much. I found it pleasing the way she talked about the car as if it's a person but then it has been one of the family for years. Heartening to see her attachment to it. Her joy in this trip is beautifully expressed in her writing. Such sweet writing. It's lovely, cosy reading. Lovely detailing about the surroundings. She certainly makes the area sound very appealing in her writing. A very pleasant read which often made me smile. I felt it would have been nice to include a few photos in the book, but, in the kindle edition I had, there weren't any. There's a useful travel info section at the end of the book with routes travelled, where they stayed details etc. My only tiny criticism is it got a little bit repetitive-it's useful sometimes to be reminded later of some details, especially if you read a book over a matter of quite a few days with big breaks, it can just refresh your memory, however, I just felt there were things mentioned again a few too many times; later on I was shouting out "I KNOW!!!!!" at the book. The things I am talking about are the mentions that Clancy has one million km on the clock, reminders of Lola's age, the reasons why she is doing the trip/spending quality time with family etc, and her preference for traditional maps rather than GPS. I enjoyed this book very much and look forward to future books from Emma Herbert about her travels.
I just couldn't get into this one.
Clancy goes to France is a travelogue with a difference. The author’s passion for travel clearly shines through and she eloquently offers the reader a wide range of travel tips such as places of interest to visit and which roads to take or avoid. Useful summaries of French camping grounds and amenities typically offered by those grounds are also provided along with types of shops, retail outlets and eateries. Even the accessibility of public toilets is anecdotally discussed, an extremely important topic when travelling with young children! It is an honest book in that situations that do not go to plan and that require quick decision making are depicted, so well in fact that one almost feels that one is there and should be contributing to the decision making! The fact that mother and daughter have embarked on this journey alone around France is both admirable and inspiring and this leads to why this book is different. The message that the author presents to the reader is that of taking our time in life, looking around us and taking in the beauty that is in the world. Most important of all, share these moments with those we love and create life-long memories. She is extremely successful in articulating that message and I found this compelling and captivating reading. To say I was disappointed when I reached the end would be an understatement! I cannot wait to hear about the next adventures of Emma, Lola and dear, reliable old Clancy.
A delightful saga of Mother and 3 year old daughter traveling in an antique auto through France raising funds for MS. Her father has MS thus her reason for the journey. Keeping mainly to back roads and campgrounds with cabins they travel slowly in the auto named Clancy. The child is amazingly patient for so much traveling, she is very intelligent and inquisitive. Emma is nervous having never traveled this way in the old auto without GPS or air conditioning for the hot days. I found the book to be thoroughly enjoyable and look forward to their next journey.
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