21 May

Even though Dakhla was one of the best and cleanest towns we have seen in Africa, we have a long journey still ahead of us and were glad to leave this morning around half 7

After 90 miles in the middle of nowhere in the desert the bike stuttered and stalled.... this was not a good sign! Luckily it turned out I had run out of petrol, the mechanic obviously forgot to connect the reserve light up so I was unaware that I was that low. I have the spare 20 litre tank full on the back so it wasn't a problem

Even though we diagnosed the problem with my bike was the thermostat we obviously don't have a spare, so it has only been removed, cleaned and put back on. It must have been the sheer temperatures we are experiencing combined with sand getting everywhere that caused the problem, as today the bike has run perfectly again!

We kept it at a steady pace all day and made it to Tan-tan in Morocco, we have found a different hotel though as the one on the first leg of our journey here was pretty bad! We even arrived just after the second half of Chelsea v Man U had started so we got to watch the end of that

Miles covered: 532