To see whether you can hack a long trek your checkout trip ideally needs to be
- out of your comfort zone
- with a language you don't know
- with road signs in a different script (Arabic, cyrillic, greek)
- a radically different culture
- without ready access to a dealer network
- where getting spares to you would be challenging
France, Spain/Portugal, Italy hit maybe only one, or at the most two, of the above.
You really need to be out of the EU.
Central Turkey, far Eastern Europe, or Morocco/Western Sahara (especially if you don't speak French) would meet most of the points.
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