hitchhiking around ireland with a fridge

Most of the time though it’s a pleasure to watch him suffer the agonies of being an articulate, if slightly awkward, Englishman winning the love of the Irish as he lets Fate guide him around the country with no thought of where he’ll sleep tomorrow. He can also be facetious at times, trying to pull of innuendoes or crabby one-liners that suggest a comedian on stage struggling to get any laughs. At times his little speeches and flights of fancy go on rather too long and you feel like you’re reading more of a script than a travelogue. Tony Hawks makes a living by being funny and Round Ireland with a Fridge will have you laughing out loud. “’Mary, have you heard about his fella? He’s bringing a fridge round Ireland.’

Hawks gets on such a roll that after a while all he seems to need to do is walk into the nearest pub with his fridge on a trolley behind him before he makes friends with half the town. But with the Gerry Ryan show firmly behind him there are soon more than enough drivers willing to take him along and indeed, Irish media seems to have been so dry for news that TV crews, radio and print journalists fall over themselves to give the fridge its 7 minutes of fame. Tony Hawks is a bit of a wimp at first when it comes to hitchhiking and hasn’t quite got the idea that a good deal of waiting is involved. Drivers who give the couple lifts scrawl all over it in felt tip pen, the fridge gets christened to ensure its place in heaven and it even gets taken surfing by a local who particularly gets into the spirit of things. Luckily for Tony Hawks, he’d undertaken his voyage in a country which understands and empathises with the average idiotic quest and, with the help of national radio, he becomes something of a celebrity wherever he goes, receiving offers of hospitality, parties are thrown for him and he get outrageously drunk at every turn.Īnd that’s nothing to the response that the Irish give the fridge.

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Hitchhiking around ireland with a fridge