...and the fourth is 70 km northwards, about an hour's drive. A nice day's outing there and back...
An hour's drive, a nice day's outing,... for 70 km? Either you guys have very bad roads, or very slow cars, or both?... 
No, no, no! The actual drive is less than an hour, but you don't know how things work around here. You can't just walk in and do business. Over here, you have to sit down, name your poison, coffee you get anyway, and coffe you DON'T just gulp down, you have to savor it. Then exchange some pleasantries, then move on to the topic at hand. Compare your philosophies, have a nice fight, pat each other's back, and go for a damn big lunch somewhere. Over lunch, in between some meat and the salad, you clinch the deal in 5 seconds flat. By then, assuming you started at say 10 AM, it's about 4 PM.
But look back and you realize you actually had a good time. Don't ask me how or why - it's a mystery.
Or is it mountainous and treacherous? That would be more to my liking, as long as there was a nice Ferrari or Porsche available... No Yugo's, PULEEZE! 
No, actually it's as flat as you can make it. No Porsches, no Ferraris, but plenty of nuts on the roads, re-enacting "The Longest Day".
As for Yugos, well Jerry, drive your best over here and me an' my ol' Yugo will give you a run for your money - like my son and me gave a guy in a Mercedes-Benz E class and another guy in a BMW today. It's tweaked, you see, or in auto language, it's tuned. You'd be surprised what twin barrel Weber carbs (that's because I'm old fashioned, you see, I prefer the sound of a carburrated engine to that of an injected one, I love the throaty, gutteral sound when you hit 7,000 rpm) will do for a Yugo engine with extended stroke (and hence more displacement), backed up by Ferodo air vented disc brakes and 2x4 calipers, riding on brand new Avon tyres (installed this afternoon). Of course, each and every one of my cylinders has been tweaked to perfection level permitted by measuring instruments - individually (oh I know it's only done in Formula I engines, but then my Yugo's paintwork uses dual component Max Mayer paint, the type Mercedes-Benz uses only on their S class, the $100+K models). Monroe gas schock absorbers and calibrated suspension springs also do their job.
So, any ol' time you feel like adding some adrenaline to your bloodstream, gimme a call. But don't say I didn't warn you - I do have a German-made Sachs gearbox, which is heavily modified. Just call him Rawhide. Why? Weeeeell, I'll just put the pedal to the metal for you in third (see, I'm being gentle and considerate here, not first, not second, where the REAL action is, but pedestrian third) and watch your face go green
Ever went from 0 to 62 mph in less than 9 seconds? In a Yugo?
The best part of it is that on the outside, it's a plain, stock, disgustingly cop-blue Yugo. You have to know where to look to see it's kinda different ... Red Ferodo calipers may start you wondering what the hell is going on here, a Yugo ain't supposed to have that, and the sound is all wrong, not docile at all, but kind of threatening. And the exhaust pipe is NEVER painted black, and it's usually smaller, but here? Things I couldn't hide.
Of course, if you prefer the smooth ride of my station wagon, with amenities such as air conditioning, stereo sound by Sony, air bags, ABS, EDB, etc, sure, no problem, I use it for holiday travels. We just came back from 15 glorious days in Greece, and that station wagon helped the general feeling of ease.
Jerry, ol' buddy, I done told yuh I was a technology freak.
Cheers,
DVV
