The Rock

We made it to Sotogrande after a bit of a push and met up with the Chester Hawlers as well as Wrong Way Down. It was good to finally stop driving and relax with afew beers.

 

After a good nights sleep and watching the Chester Hawlers fix their brakes issue we headed to Gib to check the place out.  The Hawlers had to get a circular gringer to take a lip out of their brakes to stop them seizing on.  Following a recomendation we parked up before and walked on, we were glad we did the que to get on seamed to be miles long.  We later found out that Wrong Way Down had got there early and driven on as well as most the way up the rock. Aparently the raod was getting narrower and naroower and then all they could see through the screen was sky and they started to loose traction so thats where they stopped.

 

We took a much more sedate approach and wandered round the town taking in the sights and stopping for a pub lunch. A tip for Gib not to get naled on the exchange rate is to pay for everything using pounds.  We decided not to go up the rock as it looked manky at the top. We met back up with the Chester Hawlers and decided to head back to the hotel. The walkie talkies worked well but not for too long as Chris hadnt recharged them after the inital charge.

 

By the time we got back to the hotel many more teams had arrived and it was really interesting to hear about other teams trips so far. As not enough teams had yet turned up the hotel wasnt able to get us ferry tickets but told us to head to the port andget them from a particular place.  So we set off with a very tired Irish Team (Galway to Gambia) in the lead, they had arrived about 5 minutes before.  Trying to find this particular office was interesting and envolved driving round in circles and looking thoroughly lost.  Team Lumberjack (Latvians) were convinced that we had to keep going to find this particular office. We lost the Irish and the German teams and ended up just pulling over and getting the tickets from the side of the road.  When we got back we had all payed the same price of 167 euros for a car and 2 people and could have got the same price without making the port from any of the numerous sellers.  We have decided to take the route form Tarifa to Tangiers as aparently some of the customs stuff is done on the ferry.

 

Last night at least another 7 teams turned up. Some have decided to have a rest day before travelling on. Understandable when you consider the amount of driving they have done. I wonder if we looked so ashen faced when we arrived?

 

I am writing this as we are in convoy to the ferry port excited and nervous at the same time.