A Nonsense of Direction: Overland to Everywhere in a Toytown Plastic Car

As epic journeys go, this one frequently didn’t. A Nonsense of Direction is the eccentric and farcical story of life in a very slow lane: a rambling 300,000-kilometre drive across continents for no apparent reason. In ever-more ridiculous conversions of Citroën’s legendary little 2CV, the author and his partner have hiccupped through some 80 countries, from Afghanistan to catastrophic Sahara crossings, from Bahrain to Belarus, from Liechtenstein to Las Vegas and far beyond.
It began when a n...