num_pages: 195
description: Calvin Trillin is about to skip town, and he's taking Alice and the girls with him. Don't worry--you're going too. --Whether in Tuscany or in Guadeloupe, you may be traveling at an unfamiliar pace if you're among those American who "drive across the country as if someone's chasing them." Your itinerary may include some whimsical Alice likes to visit places in song titles, and her husband is still searching for the Italian West Indies. --Along the way Trillin offers his daughter some views on traveling--the view, for instance, that the presence of an $800 -per-person customs exemption in St. Thomas does not mean that each person is required to spend $800. His daughters offers some views in "Daddy, I hope you're not going to make a scene about how absolutely fascinating it would be to eat bat stew." --You may find yourself confronted by some unusual travel questions. HJow authentic are the fast-food hamburgers at the Champs-Elysees Burget King, Masion du Whopper? COuCoulde sport tareaux piscine really combine bulls with a swimming pool? If your children admit to the immigration man at John F. Kennedy Airport that they have spent a month in Europe without seeing one certified major sight, will he confiscate your passport? --You'll be happy you were along.
language: English
title: Travels With Alice
titlecomplete: Travels With Alice
genres: France, Biography, Short Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Essays, Travel, Food Writing, Food
ratings_count: 661
publisher: Ticknor & Fields