In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge met a real prince, a bogus king, and the fridge got christened. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he made his way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow-and back again to Dublin. Have you ever made a drunken ben? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Melissa Rossi Review:īook Description Paperback. As insightful about the strange inner workings of Hawk's mind as it is about charming peculiarities of Irishmen-it's doubtful that Hawks would have been similarly embraced by Germans, Italians, or the French- Round Ireland with a Fridge is an entirely silly, heart-warming tale told in a rollicking funny and refreshing style. Quickly discovered by the Irish media, the thumbing Englishman finds that he and his box fridge are elevated to celebrity status, and there's no dearth of rides, places to stay or goofy people to meet, from kings to spoons players to locals who take his fridge surfing.

Out of this stupid premise, a ridiculously amusing book was born.

For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillow-side: a friend wagered 100 pounds that Hawks wouldn't travel Ireland for a month with a refrigerator at his side. On his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator.

Round ireland with a fridge book