hitchhiking around ireland with a fridge

Anywhere else in the world, this potentially would not have worked.

Tony comments it’s believable because it’s Ireland. It’s both incredibly hard & insanely easy to believe all of this happened. Plus it’s interesting to read as an American since he’s an English guy running around Ireland, making frequent commentary about the culture. His hitchhiking is improved because more people want to help, he’s hailed on radio shows as “the guy with the fridge,” there’s bar games held in the fridge’s honor where people must bring kitchen appliances to win! There’s a lot of drinking in pubs & a lot of reflection. Instead of it hindering him, people love him because of it. The fridge starts as kind of a gimmick, but advances into an almost spiritual symbol. He’s good at taking experiences that seem cool, perhaps weren’t, but making them even funnier in his telling of the events. Even if he didn’t tell you, you could tell he’s a comedian because his stories about his day to day life while lugging this fridge around are genuinely funny. He gains romantic interests & fun friends. One might think that after the initial laughter at the idea of traveling with a fridge wears off, it would become a bit boring & repetitive, but it never does.Īlong the way he meets a lot of real characters, people who seem like the kind of people you meet when you do something as crazy as this. It’s part travel log, part quirky essays. It starts as a drunken bet from a friend that he embraced & followed through on, but he quickly sobers up to realize it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s described as “a totally purposeless idea, but a damn fine one…” The story is basically, for all we know, an entirely true account of Tony’s journey hitch-hiking around Ireland with a mini-fridge. Not that I initially made that mistake or anything when I first read the cover… Tony Hawks, the British comedian, not to be confused with Tony Hawk, the skateboarder. Patrick’s Day! I figured I’d celebrate with Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks.

Hitchhiking around ireland with a fridge