Editor’s note: Jeremy Hart, an occasional contributor to Wired.com, is driving around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. He’s filing occasional reports from the road.

Driving round the world. Easy. It’s 2010 for goodness sake. People do it regularly.

Wrong. On the easy part at least. The Middle East sector of the Ford Fiesta World Tour 2010 was always going to be the troublemaker. Turkey to Dubai includes a handful of countries that come