A review by mhall
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s, by Cornelia Otis Skinner

2.0

Funny wacky lighthearted travel memoir about the zany adventures of two college girls as they take a ship to London and then go to France one summer. At one point they visit a country estate and play a made up lawn game similar to badminton with HG Wells and Margaret Sanger, and that is weird. I wanted this to be less tame - the beginning had a lot of promise - and at the same time less wacky, as it stretched credulity. It was two upper class-ish girls traveling somewhat independently from the one girl's family (who were also in Europe at the same time as them), wearing the wrong clothes and buying matching fur coats and adopting small dogs. How could it not be a winner?

I think if I had read this when I was growing up I would remember it fondly, like Betty MacDonald.