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Product Description 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. About the Author Fergus Dunlop was born in London and worked in politics in the House of Commons, in publishing off Fleet Street, in retailing in the West End, and in finance in the City. His investment career took him for nine years to Germany. He and his wife live with their two children in Guernsey.