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 Bo.