Written at the end of the 1890s cycle craze driven by the invention of the safety bicycle, Three Men on the Bummel is a sequel to Jerome K Jerome’s better known classic Three Men in a Boat and follows the further adventures of the author and his two friends, George and Harris. It is, as the title suggests, a wander, this time through Germany, particularly the Black Forest region. However, the routes taken and the journeys themselves are extremely vague and the ‘story’ mainly consists of a series of anecdotes, some humorous, others less so.