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.