I shall tell that to Mrs TB, preceded with a "somebody else broke down abroad"
The best breakdown(s) abroad I know of, is a mate who drove from Edinburgh to Cape Town in a Discovery 2.
He broke down so often it took him two years!
The two breakdowns of note were:
1) Head gasket went in Bengazi, Libya. Unfortunately, the Eid holiday was about to start so everywhere was closing for a week, but his visa expired before the holiday ended, so he had to get out of Libya and got trucked to Cairo. He spent the rest of Eid kicking his heels in a dusty flyblown campsite before finding somewhere to fit a new head gasket.
2) Gearbox packed up in Ethiopia. Not sure where, but he again kicked his heels in a campsite in Addis Ababa, while a recon box was shipped from the UK.
Among a myriad of other breakdowns I think the head gasket went again in Zambia, where this time they traced the cause to a partially blocked coolant pipe somewhere.