The man who broke out of the bank ...and went for a walk in France
By: Miles Morland
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781408872987
Subjects: Walking; Description and travel; Anecdotes; Job stress; Travel; Bankers
Other titles: Man who broke out of the bank, and went for a walk across France
Description: After twenty-two years spent "shouting down a phone," Miles Morland gave up his highly paid city job and walked across France with his wife. With no plans for the future, and accustomed to walking no further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi, they set off to walk from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, through the foothills of the Pyrenees. The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank is an enormously entertaining account of the pleasures and frequent agonies of walking twenty miles a day in search of a long lunch in the shade of a plane tree. Looking back with relief and hilarity on the life he has escaped, Miles Morland wonders whether his recent remarriage to Guislaine will survive the abrupt change of lifestyle and a 350-mile walk...
Notes: "First published in Great Britain 1992"--Title page verso.