THE GREEK GODDESS

Jethro Bovingdon wanted a Citroën DS and the best he could afford was in Athens, a long way from home. Is that a problem – or an opportunity?

PHOTOGRAPHY The Bovingdon family

IT FEELS REAL the moment the front wheels touch the ramp for the tatty-looking Grimaldi Lines Olympia ferry that will take me, my new car and 100 lorry drivers from Patras on mainland Greece to Brindisi on the heel of Italy. The panic crashes in a wave through my stomach, into my ribcage and through my arms until they feel almost rigid. Rolling to a jerky stop (those brakes!) I’m in automatic pilot, stirring the still-alien manual column-shift into first, stomping on the parking brake to make sure it’s secure, gathering my bags for the 15-hour journey ahead, locking the doors – well, three of them as the passenger door lock barrel slides whole with the key – and then trying to work out how I get up on deck.…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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