At last we're going to Morocco

Today we have stocked up on water, beer and food that will last us for at least 4 days, but we are hoping to buy more local food in Morocco as we travel on. The ARB frigde in the car is 47 liters big so we can't pack to much at the time.

We have had a longer session on the car today, looked through all bolts and tighten everything. Some bolts was infact a bit lose on the skid plates under the car.

To night we will rest up and eat our last good meal in Spain. The car is now ready to travel to the ferry and we plan to leave from the hotel at 07:00 tomorrow morning.

When we are traveling around the small streets in spain people look at us like we are lost(very funny). The big car is a big mystery to most, but very friendly people and the ones we speak with says the car is a monster and very very very very nice.. "We like" they say, not so much English speaking  people in Spain but very nice they say a lot, and aslo we like :-)

Today is just another hot warm nice, sunny day. Martin is outside now and hoping to get pink, and I'm in the hotel room updating the blog for you. The to last days I've been running to the WC, but I feel better now.

To morrow we start our crossing to Morocco, and we are very exited. So keep tuned , we will post again tomorrow. 


Goodnight from Alicante!

The protection plates under the car gets tightened

 David pours Fanta on to empty bottles, so it'll  take up less space

 A friendly visit :-)

 The car gets a last full checkup before we leave tomorrow

 Shopping supplies for the road ahead

 Martin enjoying Heineken from Norway on the terrace

 Martin organizes the fridge

 Checking all the wheel bolts again

 Cheers. Spanis beer tastes better then Ringnes :-)

 We bought food and beer, and we're loading it up in the car

At last Malaga - Soon we'll be in Morocco

We have just arrived at the Alhurian Golf Hotel, about 50km outside of Malaga town. The ferry to Morocco doesn't depart before the 5th of october, but we had to start our travel through Europe in good time so if anything would have happend to the car we would have had time to fix it and still make time for the ferry crossing. We bought the tickets many moths ago...

We have made good time throug Europe with no troubles, from Stavanger to Malaga we have driven 3300 km. We had some detours to take since the GPS did speak to slow some times, if you miss a exit on the highway you have to drive for miles until you can make an exit to get back on the right road. We have only missed 4 exits on the whole trip.That in all have made us travel for 3 hours longer. Not to bad. Still we have to wait until wednesday morning to start our travel in to Morocco.

Anyway we have just got our first shower since thursday and Martin could not last remember when a shower felt that good....

We will stay at the hotel for 1,5 days, and its good to rest up well after traveling through all of Europe with heavy traffic. To night we will have a good dinner at the hotel and drink Heiniken beer in the
hotel room that I infact did bring with me from Norway :-)

Tomorrow we will sleep in, since we have not slept good in the roof tent not far from the highways brawling!!.. Its about 30 C here in Malaga and a nice light breze..(Glad we did not travel in high summer) We have only seen blue sky since we left Denmark and expecting even warmer days in Morocco.

Tomorrow we will have a good look at the car and fill it up with diesel and stock up on food, so we can relax the rest of thursday before heading out for 2 weeks in the car.

Through Europe we have not made many stops so all pictures is only from cruising speed in the car. But here is some pic from our travel today in spain.

Sorry for the short post yesterday, but I was wrighting in the car will Martin was driving in the dark, and we made a wrong exit and the GPS whent bannans, as did Martin, hehe. So by mistake and stressed at the time I deleted everything i has ready to post... :( O'well thats life, but life is good now on the road.

Sending a big hello to all freinds and famaly , we are thinking of you all the time and hope you are all following us..

Daid & Martin from Spain/Malaga.

David shaving :-)

David installing the satellite equipment 

 David sleeping alle the way to 7am :-)

 At last we reach the hotel

We reached our goal, says the GPS :-) 

Our hotel room 

 Funny road signs

Getting the roof tent ready 

Crossing the Spanish mountains 

 All packed ready for the road

Hola España, Morocco next :-)

We had a good night sleep in the French forest just 200 meters from the highway :-) Washed our hair and had a panini from yesterday :-)

We had to fix the roof tent cause a bolt got broken, but nothing we couldn't  fix. We have traveled 2800 km since we left Stavanger, and we are passing Madrid as im wrighting this. To morrow we will arrive at Malaga.

More update tomorrow, (didn't write much, but maid a mistake and deleted it all). Martin is driving and we took some wrong turns so that we went in to Madrid town, the traffic and roads are crazy, so I'll have to be short.

Pictures from today.

30 degrees Celsius

arriving Alhurian in 700km

Crossing over to Spain

Costal road onwards along Spain

Some Elf diesel in Spain :-)

A quick wash before we travel on

Red Bull keeps us awake and ready

Saturday morning

Just before camp friday evening

Germany and France on our way to Morocco

As I'm wrighting this we have about 1700km left until we will have a longer rest in Spain. We have soon past 2000km of driving and hoping to cross in to Spain early tomorrow.

We was set back about 2 hours of driving and fuel, also paying 2 times on the same toll road since we have been following the orginal toyota gps in the car since this mornig, and since the vechile that is from 2007 also is the
map on it (not updatet).


So we've been directed round and round, into some French city town,(nice sight seeing, NOT) but when we hocked up the Garmin GPS we were directed the right way. so we learned a valueble lesson to not trust the GPS, and now we are looking in the map book every 30 minutes. (As we should of in the first place).... we are making good time anyway :-)

We started driving this morning at 08:00 and have stopped abour 4 times ,one time to eat, and will be driving until around 02:00 to night.

Not so much to take pictures of true Europe, but soon to come more from
Morocco..

The car is working well and we checked the motor oil and wheel nuts this morning, everything perfect as we are traveling now at 130km/h through Europe is still boring, but the road are very nice. I'll wright an update
tomorrow to, but still from Europe...:-(

Best regards
from David and Martin.

Some traffic on the Autobahn

Windmills along the French countryside

Saturday morning

Through Denmark and onwards through Germany

We have now stopped for the night at a trailer pit stop about 10 meters
from the high way. Have been traveling for about 1000km, so tomorrow we
will arrive in France :-)

Everything has been going smoth on the road and the denmark ferry was no
problem and on time. We had a stop near a shopping senter just past the
border in germany to stocking up on some red bull and food.

We take turns driving evry 2 hours and our crusing speed has been
around 120km/h. It's very boring driving through Europe with a big car that
just cant wait for offroading.. :-)

We had a quick stop at Burger King,so that we are ready for the night now. Martin is outside the car as I'm writing this and setting up the roof tent. It's very dark so ill be short, i have to help him, his flash light out side is making me crazy ..

Her is some pic from our day ..

David and Martin :-)

At the Denmark ferry.

 Crossing in to Germany.

 David on the Denmark ferry.

 In to the night trough Autobahn

 Martin driving an having fun :-)

Finaly we are ”ON-THE-ROAD”

We have just stopped for our first night in the roof tent about 10 minuts from where the ferry wil take us  over to Denmark at 08:00 tomorrow.


We are getting an urly nights sleep so that we wake up at 06:00 to check in 07:00 at the super-speed ferry that wil arrive in Denmark by 11:00 o’clock .  All is good, but we had a long week with much work, and now it will be good to finaly get closer to europe.

Martin Sunde just logged on with the laptop in the roof tent to let you all know everything is okay and god night ;-)

 

ON THE ROAD

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