A barely passable trip down nostalgia lane or a brand new adventure, depending on your age.

The centre was largely empty, and reachable only by detours down barely passable dirt tracks.

Progress was slow: each exchange involved a journey up barely passable mountain roads by a go-between carrying a memory stick.

Roads are barely passable in the autumn rain, and around a third of the country lives in poverty.

Roads in the early protectorate were little more than tracks, barely passable in the wet season.