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Clancy Goes to France: The Memoirs of a Mother’s Inspirational Adventure on the Back Roads of France. (Live to This Day Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Emma Kate Herbert (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride while visiting France from the comfort of your armchair.

Join single mum Emma and three-year-old Lola as they embark upon a remarkable road trip in honour of her father in a 1979 Peugeot 504 named Clancy.

The richly detailed beauty of France unfolds during the journey, which begins as a fundraising challenge in aid of Multiple Sclerosis. It’s testament to the reliability of Clancy - a car 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 true story of how life’s experiences are best when shared.

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.

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"I've only kept one other book on my kindle, one from Bill Bryson. I'll be keeping yours too."

"Please keep writing, you have a rare gift in making people be at your side through all your adventures."

"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).

"I loved reading this as I was on a motorcycle tour myself, some similar destinations and observations along the way. A lovely way to read about travel with a different perspective to the norm, made me smile a lot."

"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."

Emma's goal was to write about the experience so that her father could imagine himself there with her, and in this she succeeded. It's an inspirational story of a mother pushing through emotional challenges to achieve a dream.

If you'd like to share in that dream, then the story is here for you to enjoy.

Why not start now?

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◆ An inspiring travelogue with an important message...
◆ A lovely way to read about travel with a different perspective to the norm, made me smile a lot
◆ A must read if you enjoy travel books

From the Author

Hi, it's Emma here.

Thanks for taking the time to learn a little more about our adventure in France. Writing the book was a labour of love, and one that I enjoyed immensely!

As a writer, my goal is to take people with me on my travels, and I hope that this book does exactly that.

I'm currently planning a second trip with one of my father's journals, and it's likely to happen in 2022. In the mean time I continue to research and write on my website, the details of which are on my author central page.

Once again, thank you!

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XA85P6I
Publisher ‏ : ‎ LVL Travel Books; 1st edition (May 6, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 6, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4102 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 179 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,922,314 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,633 in Biographies & Memoirs of Women
- #15,281 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies
- #26,049 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)

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Emma Kate Herbert is an author and artist from Bath in the UK.

After several years living in Thailand, New Zealand and Australia she returned to England, and has since entwined her love of geography, travel and culture with her work.

She spends her time exploring in Clancy, her classic car, with her notebook and easel close to hand.

When asked what inspires her?

"I write and paint for my own pleasure and to capture memories, but I also hope to inspire others along the way"

Visit livinglavidalola.com to learn more

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Spencer Wall

An inspiring travelogue with an important message

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016

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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.

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Christian Josi

Great Concept Misses The Mark

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2021

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I give this book 3 1/2 stars but there isn’t an option to do so and I didn’t have the heart to round down so I rounded up. Because I can.

I was excited about this book and the concept, as well as the novelty of it being wrapped around a good cause (MS awareness in honor of the author’s father), but it simply did not live up to my hopes. Herbert is without question a great writer and was really onto something here but there was a rushed feeling to it and much repetitive and unnecessary detail throughout (it began after a while to feel like every other page was “here we go again” about finding a bathroom and getting petrol and buying baguettes and running out of time and switching up plans and finding a swimming pool and so forth) at the expense of more about the actual locales and characters she and her obviously darling then-three year old daughter came upon during their road trip. The time she does spend on the locales themselves and in some cases their places in French cultural history makes for fine reading—there just wasn’t enough of it.

If you are trying to wrap your head around logistics of circumnavigating France by car alone with a child, I’m sure this would serve as a great reference. But as a pleasure read, it gets tedious. The lack of a single photograph (whose call was that? It’s a book about a road trip) is also a problem, and makes the repetition in the narrative more glaring—and at times grating. A pity because they were in some very special places, many off the beaten path, which as a reader I really was jonesing to see (I actually spent a lot of time putting down the book and going Google mad looking for photos of and Wikipedia entries about the places they stopped which was fine but also tedious. A little more narrative and a few photos along the way would have kept the book in my hands, and made it a much more pleasant experience I am sure).

Again, Herbert is a very gifted and clever writer with an easy and highly readable style. And the concept was a great one. She just didn’t nail it. It happens. Doesn’t mean it sucks.

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2021

I would have enjoyed this book more if the author had included pictures of places she was impressed with as she told her story. I have spent a fair amount of time traveling by car through the French countryside, and I was hoping she would capture more of the details of the towns and villages along her route. Obviously, she was more interested in activities that would appeal to her small child, and that is fine, but the repeated accounts of swimming, walking on the beach, getting croissants, hot chocolate, and coffee grew a bit tiresome, to me at least.

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Rosalie

she is very intelligent and inquisitive

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015

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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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Louann

Did not finish it.

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015

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I just couldn't get into this one.

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Susan D Benson

Very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2021

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I really enjoyed this book, thank you. It took me back to a few places we have visited as well as a few new ones. I find your description of places and things that you got up to with Lolla fascinating. Well done ,I look forward to your next adventure.

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Suzi Stembridge

Travels on the rural byroads of France in an ancient Peugeot, bravely undertaken by a young mother with her 3 year old daughter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2015

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I would recommend this book to all readers who have driven in France or particularly who intend to do so. I also would recommend it to parents of young children. Emma - who you get to know so well as you share her journey from Somerset to Southern France, even just into Spain - seems surprised that her little daughter Lola is so perfectly behaved after several minor upheavals, up to eight hours in the car and often little to amuse her. We are not surprised for Emma is clearly a wonderful mother and keeps to herself her own qualms at the long journey she has undertaken in a 40 year old Peugeot. The author also can write well. So why have I withheld the fifth star? To my mind the narrative wanders as much as the by roads Emma tries to keep to and rather less detail on personal events to Lola and her Mum and more on the sites and sights they saw would have turned this book into the travel book with narrative that she intended. Her descriptive writing is excellent but there is just not enough of it, dropped in favour of endless baguettes with cheese and ham, and loo stops or the elusiveness of such places! But the other motive for her book was to raise money for the MS Society - Multiple Sclerosis that her father suffers from, and to present him with an account of travels in a car which he loved to a country he also loved and in this aim Herbert must be commended.

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Foranch

Great drive around France

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2021

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Very readable account of an ambitious 3 week drive around France with a young child in a very solid Peugeot. September is a lovely month to tour France and the weather is well described from 30C heat in the south to chilly mornings in the north. They travel and stop in many interesting places and make me want to do a similar trip!

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Emma

Not your usual travel book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2022

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This is a funny little book. Not really in the same travel/adventure class as Al Humphries or Anna McNuff but it’s an interesting read especially if you’re a Mum or have driven in France with young children. The proceeds go to a good cause too so there’s another reason to buy it.

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