THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER Alarm set for 0700 hours. 24°C on the car. Up showered, packed and on the road, for real now. Terra firma all the way (apart from the ferry across the English Channel). Pat set off and we stopped for petrol, at 0757 hrs, 100.O1 YTL, which was just over half a tank. They record your registration number against the transaction. Petrol is 3.66 YTL per litre, so it’s expensive. YTL to the pound is about 2.27. Not much traffic about and initially we were following the coast road eastwards, heading for the motorway, to go north. We swapped drivers about 0920. We stopped at a motorway cafe and had a local breakfast, 2 Nescafe’s, water, olives, boiled eggs, jam, flatbreads, cheeses, good simple fare. Cost 25 YTL. The petrol station had a prayer
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