I picked this up because I know all about Shearings coach tours. I have travelled on Shearings or Wallace Arnold buses to the very places described by Ben Aitken, and I recognise almost every type of scenario he shares with us. I was in my early forties when we started booking Shearings holidays after we came across a brochure and couldn't believe how cheaply we could get all round Ireland or through Europe to Rome. The vast majority of our fellow travelers had a good twenty or thirty years on us, but we had just become grandparents, so we felt we qualified. Ben seems like a nice young man, and he is careful not to make fun of his coach mates, but then he doesn't have to as they do that for themselves. You really do meet some characters on a coach trip, but they are generally harmless, and a bond forms amongst the group as soon as you board the bus. The drivers are the most tolerant people on the planet, and repeat everything they said about what t...