Venice! Rome! Tuscany! With a copy of Lonely Planet in one hand and an Italian phrase book in the other, recently retired librarians Adrian and Alison feel prepared to face the excitement of Italy in their longed-for trip.

Travelling with your nearest and dearest is difficult enough…but with a couple you’ve only just met?  This is OE for the over-fifties, when tensions can arise from sharing everything from the bathroom to the bill.   And as for sharing the driving on the autostrada!

With events from the past looming over their lives, and new excitements possibly just around the corner, the journey does indeed turn out to be the trip of a lifetime.

Four Flat Whites in Italy has broken box-office records all over the country—even more popular than Roger Hall’s recent hit, Who Wants to be a Hundred?

Note: Contains coarse language.