Tim Moore

Travelling in an ancient Rolls Royce, Tim Moore follows the trail and recalls the life of the first recognised British tourist of Europe, a 17th-century pastor's son called Thomas Coryate, pioneer of the Grand Tour. Contains some offensive language.

Tim Moore, a self-confessed loafer, was seduced by the glamour of the Tour de France. He decided to cycle the 3,630 km route, but allocated himself six weeks to complete the challenge. Here he hilariously describes how he tried to emulate his sporting heroes.

This is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Tim Moore recounts his pilgrimage by donkey along the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St Jean Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.