Travels with Alice

This delightful book collects Calvin Trillin''s accounts of his trips to Europe with his wife Alice and their two daughters. In Taormina Sicily they cheerfully disagree with Mrs. Tweedie''s 1904 assertion that the beautiful town is being spoilt and skip the Grand Tour in favor of swimming holes table soccer and taureaux piscine. In Paris they spend a day on the Champs-Elysées comparing Freetime''s le Hitburger to McDonald''s Big Mac. In Spain Trillin wonders whether he will run out of Spanish the way someone might run out of flour or eggs. Filled with Trillin''s characteristic humor Travels with Alice is the perfect book for summer travelers.