My excessive-powered, six-pace Opel was stranded … stopped partway via a flip onto a slender, cobblestoned avenue, a lot to the annoyance of the pedestrians surrounding the automotive and the drivers behind me. Trying up on the tall stone buildings lining the road simply 10 toes aside, it was clear that the thoroughfare my lodge was on was designed for drivers on horseback … a very long time in the past.