At times we’re witness to something of a learning curve for these rookie parents, from the moment they leave their East Sussex coastal home in a jam-packed (and soon smelly) Vauxhall Astra to travel the length and breadth of the UK in the name of family leisure time research. Whatever the case, it certainly proved a huge undertaking for a couple who met as regional journalists 20 years before. But it certainly proved timely, not least with their daughter starting ‘big school’ on their return – the offer to write a British family tour guide for US publisher Frommer’s giving the Hatch clan a golden chance to bond before the reality of September to July school terms kicked in. Whether it was opportunism twinned with financial necessity, a spirit of wanderlust or devil-may-care, or just midlife-crisis-with-children that drove the Hatch grown-ups to take on this venture is open to question. Brand Hatch: The ‘often painfully funny’ Are We Nearly There Yet?
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