OK, we know that’s a big leap but the last few weeks have been a test with not much to show or tell about. We’ve been stuck here courtesy of the Spanish postal service (or lack of). Although both bikes are running we’d ordered spares ready for the African Leg of our journey from Motorworks in the UK who are supporting us by generously given us a big discount . With the most important package still waiting to be received we’ve simply hung about. Tarifa is interesting in small doses but of course the temptation to spend money whilst were here is always present, so not going into town is a safer option. Our moods haven’t been helped with almost two weeks of torrential rain and I do mean torrential. We’ve regularly been swimming in the front of the tent. Today we had our first bit of good news in a while. Whilst hedging our bets we’d contact a local BMW dealer who, although doesn’t hold much bike stock had called to confirm the parts we require have been ordered and will be with him this afternoon. The prices are substantially higher than Motorworks, unfortunately any savings we would have made from Motorworks have been wipe away based on the cost of simply being here. At €19.99 a night it doesn’t come cheap. This is of course frustrated by the fact the we’d bargained by now to be in Morocco or even Mauritania and so would have been paying much less to meet our basic daily needs. Finally we’ve been forced to accept that it may cost us more to wait for spares from the UK. With this in mind we’ve now paid for our spares here in Spain and can now begin the packing up process and if all goes well head off to Ceuta (Spanish enclave in Africa).

OK so what did we finally manage to organize? Well between Motorworks and BM in Spain we’re taking the following: