Minnie – Glad you like the descriptions. Very sorry to hear about your car. Whilst we use mine relatively little within Prague, because of the excellent intergrated public tranport system, it is a great boon for trips & holidays. Yes it was a good buy – I outlined my reasons for bringing it to the Czech Republic in an earlier post http://rickyyates.com/driving-on-the-right-side-of-the-road/.

The Turkish roads we travelled on were a revelation – far better than many here in the Czech Republic. The worst roads we met all dated from Communist times, namely the Sofia ring-road, some of the more country roads in southern Serbia which we traversed on our way home, together with parts of the Prague-Brno motorway nearer to Brno which are very uneven.