This book is a collection of magazine articles created over several years and is intended to showcase some superlative photographes and great writing as an incentive to use your classic car to explore, learn and enjoy. The stores in it required a good deal of effort to create, and due to special circumstances, are unique. They are also sadley unlikely to ever be repeated.

This book combines the beautiful motoring photography of Martyn Goddard with the evocative writing of three excellent motoring journalists, Phil Llewellin, Dale Drinnon and Paul Horrell. Mr Llewellin, who wrote most of the stories, was a very well regarded motoring and travel writer and these stories - journeys or adventures really - are all charmingly told and very accurate in the depth of detail. Several are taken from iconic classic car magazine Super Car Classics. They recount trips in classic cars, mainly wonderful Citroens and the man who made it all happen is Citroen guru Andrew Brodie. But its not just about cars, the trips are also about people and places and most importantly, food and wine, as discovered in different parts of France.

I would recommend this book to anybody interested in classic cars, particularly Citroens, or with an interest in fine dining, wines, travel and photography, or just in need of a diverting read!

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Book, 22 Oct 2012

By Jonathan James (London)

This review is from: An Omelette and Three Glasses of Wine: En Route with Citroens (Hardcover)

When you buy a car book about trips through France in beautiful classic Citroen cars which is entitled "An Omelette and three Glasses of Wine", you know that you are in for something out of the ordinary.

This is a fascinating collection of stories recounting motoring trips and experiences over the years through France in the stunning cars made by Citroen in the 60's and 70's when Citroen created cars with big character and head-turning beautiful avant-garde design.

It is equally about the history and technical excellence of the cars and equally about the spirit France, full of pithy anecdotes with visits to interesting places off the beaten track in rural France, chance meetings along the way and delicious meals at typical small restaurants.

The photography in the book is extraordinary and catches the spirit both of the cars and France with amazing sensitivity.

With photographs of a gleaming red Citroen DS flying along a tree-lined route nationale , a stunning Citroen SM-Maserati set against distant views of Mont St. Michel and an Inpecteur Maigret Traction Avant racing through the French Alps, you feel as if you are a passenger on these wonderful motoring journeys through France in the company of good friends talking about the cars, gallic way of life and enjoying the experience to the full.

A truly excellent book which I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.

5.0 out of 5 stars Motoring in Europe as it should be, 25 Oct 2012

By Robert Boyer

This review is from: An Omelette and Three Glasses of Wine: En Route with Citroens (Hardcover)

I enjoyed the book enormously.

A great spur to explore the little visited parts of France, and to relive the Citroen moments from my last SM.

The photographs are splendid, well done to Andrew Brodie to produce such a great book.

It is sure to be well read here in our B&B in France.

Publisher: Yellow Chevron Publishing

Status: Current

Number of pages: 144

Colour images: 136

Binding: HBD

Language: English

Origin: U.K.