We managed to leave Buenos Aires without any (more) mishaps, and arrived in Madrid at 05:30. As it was dark we could see straight away the moon was back the right way up, and waning in the correct direction. The bikes flew to London before joining us by Sunday.

In Argentina drivers would look at us as they failed to hit us, back in Europe they are looking at their mobiles.

We aren't going directly home, but faffing about in Spain and France before bimbling back through the UK and have just spent a few days riding north of Madrid with Mike and Moira who came out with Aidan and Angela to meet us.

Yesterday I gloated about the bike chain life, today we had them changed. By a Spanish motocross champion at a KTM dealer. Apparently they were rotten.
We are now in Alicante and will make (slow) progress north from here, I doubt I will make any/many more blog entries now we are back on home turf.

A few days ago we still had to put used toilet paper in a bin, now we can put it down the pan again.