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Continental Drifter

Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate`s 1608 journey to Venice and back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour.Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put on a ridiculous velvet suit and set off in Coryate`s tracks at the wheel of a senile Rolls-Royce.Treading on frugality and the bawdy self-indulgence of the later Grand Tourists, Moore`s confrontations with Continental croupiers, nudists, sugar-beer farmers and an offshore welders are a grotesque blend of Baldrick and Blackadder.While charting the decline of the Grand Tour from the sombre academy of cultural betterment to the Club 18-30 of the 1830s, Moore also resurrects the reputation of Coryate, whose reward for introducing the fork to Britain and coining the word `umbrella` was ridicule, poverty and an almost unbearably poignant ending in India.

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