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HIT THE ROAD, GALS

Bridget Ashton

ISBN 978-1-916668-15-7

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Publication: 29 FEBRUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668157
Price: £10.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 264 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: DND Memoir

Author location: Northumberland
Book location: Europe

• An enchanting and vivid memoir chronicling
Bridget and her friends' penniless travels
hitchhiking around Europe and north Africa in
the 1960s.
• Travel through the UK and across Europe with
this group of daring young women, who must
balance their 1960s morals of virginity and
marriage with all the charming and good-
looking men they meet on their travels.

Bridget Ashton is an explorer, mother, writer and photographer. • The third book from Bridget Ashton, following
Cold War, Warm Hearts which details her
Growing up in the Welsh border town of Hayon- Wye, her family experiences travelling behind the Iron Curtain
migrated to Northumberland in 1955. While at college in 1960s in the 1960s.
Hereford, she learned how to travel with only pennies in her pocket
and in 1966 she spent a year hitchhiking behind the Iron Curtain. Travel back in time to the vibrant 1960s, and join Bridget
Later, she and her American husband brought up four children in and her friends, students at the Hereford College of
Northumberland, where they still live. Education, as they dare to defy convention and hitchhike
their way through an era of change.

Armed with sixpenny Esso road maps and thumbing rides
from friendly lorry drivers, they journey through Wales,
Scotland and onwards to London. Venturing abroad, they
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Hit the Road, Gals captures a time when the roads were
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without notice. 15/09/2023 open, the spirits were free and a group of daring young
women carved their own path through a world in transition.