The year is 1988. The Cold War is ending. Europe's near abroad unlocks. ... and a 30-year-old Londoner attempts a road trip from France to western Turkey in a vintage Bentley. This journey unfolds into a circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea. For his next expedition, the author plans to ride a Russian copy of a German WWII military motorcycle with sidecar from Moscow to Madrid. In the final episode, he and his new bride drive a condemned VW Beetle from Tuscany through the Bosnian war zone into Albania. Spanning eight years, these three journals give a kerbside view of late twentieth-century Europe, a time and place already unfamiliar.
