• I recently met up \yak) a driver whose usual route down to the Middle East took him through Turkey.
9th August 1990, Page 22
9th August 1990
Page 22
Page 22, 9th August 1990
— • I recently met up \yak) a driver whose usual route down to the Middle East took him through Turkey.
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Diesel is hard to come by in Turkey, at least for cash, he told me. The trick is to have a pair of shiny shoes, preferably with ornate gilt buckles, about your person. These can always be successfully traded for a tank of fuel. Two dozen pairs of shoes, bought cheap at a market, saw my friend there and back.
The downside is that the average shoe size in Turkey is seven — a good two sizes smaller than that worn by our twinkle-toed trucker. Ile became adept at leaping lightly from his cab and sauntering casually over to the shoebedazzled attendant, with his feet squeezed agonisingly into size seven shoes.