Summary Morocco - what a country! Our first real taste of a Muslim society and it didn't disappoint. The country itself is amazing, huge gorges and mountain ranges towards the north, sand dunes and desert to the south, a beautiful coastline to the west and vast plains of emptiness in between. We travelled with Mark and De'anna, the Australian couple we'd met at the top of Spain only a couple of days into our trip. They helped us immensely and we learnt so m...

Part 2 Summary This was supposed to be a quick trip back into Spain to meet up with Mark and De'anna, the couple we'd met in Tremp a few weeks earlier, and then make our way across to Morocco. Instead we had to get 2 new tyres put on the front of the car which took 3 days to order in so we added Rhonda and Gibraltar to the trip while we waited. We had a good day in Seville, met a new friend named Chris in Algeciras, Brenden got violated by some Mikaws in Gibr...

Speedometer: 129,082 km's Thursday 4th December After crossing the river from Tui in Spain, we entered Portugal at the town of Valenca do Minho at about 3.30pm. Within 10 minutes of being in Portugal we got pulled over by the Police. The guy was actually surprised to see 2 Aussies driving a French vehicle holidaying in Portugal. He asked us if we owned the car and then let us go on our way after about a minute. That's Police Stop No. 2 for the trip. Fro...

Speedometer: 126,676 km's Sunday 16th NovemberAfter crossing the border from France we headed along the C38 before turning left onto the N260 until we came to a place called Ripoll. Here we spent the afternoon visiting the Santa Maria church and walking around the town. It was freezing cold but the church was definitely worth a visit. We ended up finding an Aire in town where we stayed for the night. The tourist info place next door had good wifi and good t...

28th SeptemberYou know its the small things that you miss when you travel. Right across China, Mongolia and Russia it was either crap into a hole and throw the toilet paper in it or crap into a toilet and throw the toilet paper in a bin beside it. When we landed at Helsinki for our connecting flight to Paris, it was like the good old days of everything into the toilet. Ah, bliss!!!!! Week 1The first week in France/Paris was a hectic one. The first night we...