To Timbuktu ... ?

The sheep ignore cars completely, knowing they will stop and toot when it's time to get out of the way, but they won't let a person on legs closer than three metres ...

As the landscape flattens out towards the southern coastal plain, the township of Timbaki comes into view, with a remarkable assortment of ... well, what on earth are they? They look for all the world like hundreds of tiny square lakes ...

When you finally get close enough to see, it turns out they're green-houses, more or less well-covered in vast pieces of tatty plastic, the frames of many of them falling down. Some of them definitely have something growing in them, though it's hard to see what: some of them look like they might be tomatoes. But still, the dominant impression is simply of abandonment on a vast scale - an EU project of five years ago, maybe ...