20:47 - by text - Arrived in Tarifa in the dark. Having supper with friends of Charles who happen to live here! Jonny still 400km further back.

Edited to add: a long day - 415 miles, at an average of nearly 55mph. Pictures of Salamanca Cathedral in the morning light, and a bridge in Seville.

News from further back along the road was that Jonny had magneto problems, and they weren´t going to make it to Tarifa tonight. Mark and Sue, the last to join the party, plan to meet us for the ferry, but are suffering from overheating problems.

Meanwhile I had document panics - carnet found to be still in the New Forest with Rollo, the car´s owner. He will DHL it out to Rabat. In a panic about this I then nearly lost my passport which, along with my camera, got driven over by a truck before being rescued by David and Jacky from the middle of a dual carriageway.

We need to all get our acts together if we´re to make it to Timbuktu (Ghana for everyone else).