Day 8: Mixed emotions this morning. I seem to be really missing the company of those really annoying bears. Decision time again and to be fair making this amount of decisions in such a short space of time is quite hard work. Do i carry on and not enjoy myself or head back with the other two and start planning the next adventure? To take my mind off all this serious stuff i decided to pop in to the Grottes De Chiker which is an underground cave system up in the hi...

Day 7 I think but who knows: as we were staying in an expensive luxury hotel with beds and bathrooms, rather than stay in until they kicked us out, Darren had us up early! So early in fact that we had to wake the night porter and get him off the couch in reception where he was fast asleep! We then had to take a run up on our bikes to make it out of the underground garage then about 10 yards up the street where we then started to dismantle Darrens bike to see if w...

Day 6 I think: Well what a day. Woke up to the sound of those bears again but I'm getting used to them so not too bad. Got the kettle on and waited for the other two Not Top Gear travellers to silence the bears! All went well and we were packing away our stuff when Sparky asked the question "has anyone seen my bike keys?" After much searching, re searching and having a pretty hard look everywhere we had to admit defeat and just assumed the bears had knicked them!...

Day 5: Bears safely hidden away for the journey to Morocco, bikes packed and we're raring to go. Can you imagine 3 elderly blokes at the peak of physical fitness coughing and spluttering first thing in the morning because we aren't even that good. Still, with Sparky's exhaust we always make a grand entrance or exit from anywhere we stay which is nice. So off to Algeciras and onto the high speed ferry over to the Spanish enclave that is Ceuta. Quite a nice trip ov...