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Douglas has planned a trip around Europe as a perfect remedy for his failing marragie to Connie.
The Grand Tour is devised after Connie wants to leave him seeing as their son Albie also also set to depart the family home for college.
Surly this failsafe plan of bring the three together will succeed...

The trip seems to be going quite well on their first stop in Paris, though teenager Albie would quite like to do his own thing in the French capital.
It's the train journey to Amsterdam where the first cracks between Doug and Albie start to appear.
Once they've arrived in Holland and the itinerary is no longer being adhered to then the whole trip looks in tatters.

The travel aspect really enticed me into the story as was curious to see which city was next on the agenda.
The three main characters are all well defined and clear with which type of trip they'd all like.

Whilst I felt Douglas was trying his best for the whole group to have a good time, his regimental plans took all the fun out of these beautiful locations.
I love visiting art galleries too, I've enjoyed both the Louvre and Van Gouh's museums too but you need to mix it up with other landmarks and attractions to get the best of the local culture.

The organised Doug and whimsical Connie hardly seemed like the most compatible couple.
It would have been more interesting if everyone had equal input to the travel plans.

I really liked Douglas first person narrative though madding with some of the ways he acted on the trip.
I'd liked to think that he learnt a lot especially during the second half of the journey...