| Location: | Beziers, France |
"Why on earth Madrid after getting to London??" I hear you say. A few reasons. Firstly, it is much cheaper to fly the bike back from Chile to Spain than to London. Secondly, Kevin was determined to ride into the UK. Thirdly, we have flown into Madrid previously with a bike and we knew exactly what the process was (so less grief!).
It took us barely three hours and only ten euros to get the bike out of the warehouse and onto Spanish roads. But our problem was petrol. Lan Chile were the strictest airline we have flown with and monitored the draining of the tank so that it was empty. We pushed the bike out of the security gates, but the nearest gas station was a couple of miles away.
"Lets try the bike anyway" I said, the thought of pushing the bike for two miles on some busy airport roads was not appealing. Somehow, there must have been some drops still left, because true to form and never letting us down the bike fired up and got us to juice.
The next day, we did a gentle 500 mile ride across to the Southern French coast to stay with friends who had just relocated to the north of Beziers. We chatted in English, drank single malt whisky and then delighted in smelly French cheese. It was our first real hangover in a very long time!!
