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IAIN AYRE

BIO: Iain Ayre’s automotive enthusiasms span everything from Minis to Bentleys. He has prototyped several car designs without commercial success, and has written 18 books on random motoring subjects. He continues to avoid getting a proper job.

Christmas used to infuriate me. The greed, the repetition, the cheap cheesy tat, the corruption of the original idea, the politics of families, and worst of all, the same inescapable, boring, grating muzak. The muzak being the worst of it.

So one year I formed an Escape Committee, which would convene for Christmas and spend it in a Moslem country. Tunisia

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