Felicity, a keen cyclist and lover of France, decides to embark on her own culinary Tour de France. Covering over 2,300 km, each chapter she cycles to a different place and eats the local cuisine and tells us what it is famous for. She also provides recipes along the way. I really loved her light-hearted style and all the random quirky places she visited along the way (a museum about the history of cabbage any one?) And 35 croissants were consumed in the making of this book.

I'm glad I requested this book from Netgalley as it is a joy. A lot of the non fiction I read can be quite heavy, so this made a really nice change. Part travelogue, part food memoir, part history lesson, Felicity is so engaging and makes reading about her journey so much fun. I now want to try Paris-Brest, ratatouille, tartiflette and have a proper croque Monsieur.

The illustrations in the book are wonderful too. A beautiful book inside and out.

Travel and food, my two favourites in the same place, what could be better ! The long winded narration is an occasional buzzkill, but otherwise a very enjoyable book !

I really enjoyed One More Croissant for the Road, a great example of the travelogue genre. Interesting on different French cuisines, engaging, funny: a real treat of a book that I ripped through. I've already bought a copy for my Dad!

I found myself laughing at many spots in the book, at Felicity's exploits, experiences and her joie de vie!

Bring a lover of France and many of its produce I found myself wanting to return as soon as possible.

Thank you Netgalley, Felicity Cloake and Harper Collins for the opportunity to read this delightful book.

Part travelogue, part recipe, we join the author on a jaunt round France by bike. Slow paced but still enjoyable and definitely whetted the appetite.

Took me a while to get into this book. The first section about her prep was a bit long winded and I ended up skipping it. It should maybe have been at the end. The story itself was interesting and I found myself Googling to see the places she was talking about

I've been lucky enough to meet Felicity on several occasions, and her voice comes through so strongly in this book. She is bubbly, friendly and full of disrespect for all sorts of things. I had expected a traditional cookery book, and was delighted to find this was a book that was actually about her and her love of cycling, with the food of France punctuating her ride through the country. So many titbits of information, all served up with vim, vigour and a lip-licking zest for life. Recommended.

A Gastronomic Delight....
A gastronomic delight - join the author in an entertaining and enlightening cycle trip across France in search of classic, perfect dishes designed to tingle the tastebuds. Beautifully written, often very amusing, with some tantalising descriptions and interspersed with even more tantalising recipes. Very enjoyable indeed.

A huge fan of all things French, I was intrigued by this book. However, I have found the writing style difficult to warm to. For me, the author is trying a little too hard to be funny.

I haven't yet finished the book, feeling frustrated by it, but will come back to it as I'm still intrigued by the trip she's undertaken, not to mention the food. Maybe one to read when I'm a little less tired.

Thank you to #NetGalley for the advance copy.

A triumphant tour of France! I inhaled this wonderful book in a few sittings. Bravo Felicity! This is what food/travel writing should be.

I got totally immersed in this book being a Francophile, foodie and a gentle cyclist. I knew several of the places and routes which Felicity took on her 'Tour de France' although not many of the boulangeries/restaurants on the way but certainly many of the dishes. Sadly Felicity experienced a lot of rain which somewhat dampen her enthusiasm but one can't but help being drawn in by the magic of a slower pace on a bike which allows one to explore this wonderful country perfectly. Being long past the age of finding camping under canvas comfortable (we've graduated to a caravan and do our cycling in circuits from a campsite) I could really visualise some of the campings described.

The book is interspersed with recipes of such French Classics as the veritable Cassoulet and one's mouth waters in the process. Descriptions of other dishes sampled along the way as well tickle the taste buds. The book perfectly captures the vagaries of French Mondays (nothing open) the sparse availability of any sort of refreshments cycling on quiet roads through sleepy villages.

Wonderfully written with a lot of humour and I loved the fact that Felicity could only remember one German word from school when in Alsace 'schwarzwalder kirschtorte', my daughter often quotes this to us being the only word she remembers too! One thing only, I almost expected more croissants but perhaps we're just greedy.

'Chapeau' indeed Felicity.

I am a huge fan of Felicity Cloake’s column and of her recipe books, so I really looked forward to reading One More Croissant for the Road. What a fun read it was! Light and easy, but with enough detail on the areas she travelled to, and the people she encountered, to give it depth and interest. A descriptive sub-title could be the chronicles of a feisty, fit, food-lover!

For the foodie reader, each chapter / stage is based on an area, and includes wonderful descriptions of the food she ate, and some useful pointers for restaurants to go to, and some to avoid! I enjoyed the croissant quality checks (I don’t think I will ever eat a croissant again without thinking how it would be scored!) and the recipe at the end of the chapter.

A map of the area she travelled would have been useful – I kept expecting a sketched map at the beginning of each chapter showing where these pages would be taking us. I would have loved a least one photo of the gallant Eddy (the bicycle!)

This book was rather like meeting a brand new friend.

To start with I really wasn’t sure; I found the prologue to be a bit forced and trying too hard to be funny. I wanted to keep a bit of distance and, in fact, nearly bailed.

I kept at it and, for the next chapter or two, we skirted around each other. I didn’t dislike the book but I couldn’t work out if we had anything in common.

Suddenly I realised that I’d been nodding, agreeing and laughing along for quite a few chapters.

By the end I felt like one of the author’s close friends, like we’d drunk too much champagne and couldn’t stop giggling together. If only I could be bothered to cycle around France!

I’d highly recommend this book and, of course, the food descriptions are delicious...

An incredible travel-memoir that should be on every foodie francophile's bedside - simply glorious. Made me want to hit the road myself!

This book will make you want to go to France. Delicious descriptions of French food, with recipes for some of the more iconic dishes, built around a cycle trip through most of France. Travel and food - what better combination?

I have missed reading books like this; I was a big fan of cyclist Josie Dew's adventures cycling around the world and of course, there's Dervla Murphy in Cuba. These kinds of books don't seem to be being commissioned much these days so thank goodness for Felicity Cloake who is carrying on a fine tradition.

Cloake is such an amiable, intelligent writer who manages to convey difficulty with a light touch. The reader can see where and when the going got tough but without the angst that some travel writers inject into their writing (and I am mainly looking at men here.) You know the type: "I was nearly eaten by a bear then I fell down a ravine in sub-zero temperatures and then had to take a chainsaw to the pile of frozen poo in my long drop.." There's a lot of drama llamas in travel writing and Cloake is blissfully free of this tendency. She makes me feel like I could cycle around France too with a bit of training and preparation.

I love her accounts of French food too. It's about time it had its time in the sun again.

I’ve read dozens of France and French based memoirs so I’m perhaps a harsher critic than most.

I live in France and have done for the last decade. Consequently I love learning more about the country I now call home and especially how it's viewed by outsiders or visitors. But I’m afraid this one left me cold. It’s a shame because I really wanted to enjoy it. Yet it is riddled with cliches and over-written in places. It could have done with a good edit. I got confused too. Is it a recipe book or a travel memoir? The overly-flowery, teenage girl descriptions felt like padding in places and I'm afraid I didn't actually finish reading it.

I suspect fans of the author’s writing will devour it though.

This book is a joy, especially for me as a confirmed Francophile. It's not just me who has noticed some of the idiosyncrasies of our friends across the Channel and their lovely countryside. The narrative pokes gentle fun at the French and all the visitors to their scenic country, but is self-deprecating as well. Their is a bit of name dropping, and some of the recipes seem a bit OTT, but overall this is highly recommended.

Imagine eating a green apple. You can practically taste it, and certainly you can picture it. Felicity Cloake has the great skill of bringing the enjoyment of food to life. Everywhere she travels in France her descriptions of food are astonishingly good, and her appreciation of it is clear.
Making the journey by bicycle means that Felicity earns every mouthful in exertion. The only way I could have enjoyed this book more is if I read it whilst cycling through France. Five stars, no question.

I liked this book: it was entertaining and full of lovely stories, ideas. It made me crave to be on the road in France and travelling with the writer.
A lovely reading experience.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.