{"id":94372,"date":"2016-02-11T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94372"},"modified":"2016-02-12T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:44:41","slug":"euro-road-trip-twelve-cadillacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/euro-road-trip-twelve-cadillacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Road Trip, Twelve Cadillacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94375\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/568344401.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94375\" class=\"wp-image-94375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/568344401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/568344401.jpg 875w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/568344401-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/568344401-768x642.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Leigh Fermor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The British travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, born on this day in 1915, sent this letter to Deborah Devonshire in October 1960, having completed a road trip through plenty of Eastern Europe. Read more of their letters in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Tearing-Haste-Letters-Devonshire\/dp\/1590173589\" target=\"_blank\">In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Off we set in Joan\u2019s Sunbeam Rapier, hood down, singing at the wheel, heading from Le Touquet to our old friend Lady Smart\u2019s, spent three days there, then into a deserted dusty summer Paris, so bare that it might have been emptied by a Bedouin raid, and south to Fontainebleau, for a further three days of utmost luxury and pleasure at your old pal Charles de Noailles and Natalie\u2019s house \u2026 Then off hot wheel eastwards to Chatillon-sur-Marne, to see the Vix Vase, a huge Greco-Etruscan amphora dug up seven years ago \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Then across the Rhine, through the Black Forest, one night on the shores of Lake Constance surrounded by Germans; south into the Austrian Tyrol, on into Italy at Bolzano, then <em>clean through the Dolomites<\/em>, hundreds of miles of sheer and dizzy spikes a-gush with streams out of which beautiful trout virtually leap straight on to frying pan, grill and saucepan; north of Venice into Yugoslavia at last; through Slovenia to Lubliana, through Croatia to Zagreb, then east along a billiard table <em>autostrada <\/em>towards Belgrade. Now, a travel tip for motoring in Yugoslavia: there are only about three petrol umps the country, and scarcely any motors. We ran out hundreds of miles from one on this <em>autostrada <\/em>in the heat of the day and settled for hours under an acacia tree \u2026 until at last a caravan of twelve Cadillacs drew up and succoured us by siphoning petrol out of their tanks. They were a party of Persian princes with their sloe-eyed princesses on the way from Claridge\u2019s to Teheran. They partook freely of our wine flask, asked us to stay in their palaces (the competition began to look ugly) and then slipped into gear for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>We continued south into wildest Bosnia, where mountains began to rise and minarets to sprout in every village, each alive with Moslem invocations intoned thrice daily. The roads became dust tracks across plains or twisty ledges of rubble little wider than eyebrows along the rims of deep gorges at the bottom of which huge rivers curled and swooped through echoing and forested ravines, with here and there an old Turkish bridge spanning them as thinly and insubstantially as a rainbow. The food became odd and wonderful, stuffed with garlic and paprika and the sunlight and our breath got stronger with every mile. So on to Sarajevo, scene of the Archduke\u2019s murder, and, thorough range after range of mountains to Dubrovnik on the Dalmatian coast, a terrific medieval walled city full of renaissance palaces and belfries and winding columns and cloisters, and oysters too\u2014huge and wonderful ones. South of this is the old kingdom of Montenegro, now part of Yugoslavia, reached after a three-hour zigzag up a sheer and cloud-topped wall of mountain, looking down on to strange rock fjords caked with water lilies and with pyramid-shaped mountains that hover on mist like the ones in Japanese pictures, and plenty of gliding storks \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Into Greek Macedonia at last, and then by familiar roads to Athens \u2026 a colossal road is being built outside, with fifty pneumatic drills, giant steel claws for rubble, hydraulic pumps, steamrollers and blasphemy. One has to talk in bellows. I have now bought some pink wax ear plugs, which makes everything even eerier. I see massed drills a-shudder, rollers a-crunch, and ten tons of broken concrete crashing from suddenly gaping steel claws all only a few yards off, <em>and all in dead silence<\/em>; lorries hurtle by as soundlessly as minnows. 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