It was a culmination of days of shared driving. Yesterday in visibility about the length of the drivers compartment, the day before driving on potholed sections to Tatev big enough to swallow a bus and the day before that driving in speed city traffic where Armenian drivers would tailgate you until they found a corner blind enough to overtake you and 3 other cars at once !
What made today special though was that in Dilijan a town in the hills outside of Lake Sevan, the above car driving issues happened to Kev at once ! We'd just emerged from a 4 km long Soviet style tunnel (dark and narrow) when the fun began ! We'd been looking for a road in Dilijan that supposedly lead to a ruined monastery ! Kev had negotiated the narrow Dilijan roads avoiding cars parked 3 deep and those reversing and Turing at will when he confronted a section of potholes that once were part of a road ! In this situation every car took its own line meaning that you could be faced with 6-7 cars coming at you all from different directions ! " I've had enough of this country said Kev ! " It might have great scenery but these roads and drivers are giving me the absolute shits " ! I could gather that I thought, as his normal obscenity laden daily quota was exhausted within 5 minutes of driving ! His solution .. drive like the. !
It was time to take matters in hand before Kev turned into a blithering mess ! I took over the wheel (my obscenity daily quota was lower) while trying to navigate and console Kev at the same time !
I really do fear for the residents of Diamond Creek on Kev's return if he intends applying any of his newly learnt Armenian driving habits !
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