Last leg of the journey.

It was nice getting up knowing that we had a shorter day of driving. In total it would take us just over 3 hours to do our final leg of the trip but we were having a short stop to meet up with my brother first.

As we headed for the M25 to start our journey North I offered to drive the last couple of hours so that Neil could relax and listen to the World Cup match between England and Germany. We stopped at services, as we joined the M1, and swapped over just as the match was about to kick off. Which ever way the match went, it was likely to cause some distraction for Neil from his driving, not a good idea when you're travelling at 70+ mph.

The match started well enough, but soon began to go down hill and the frustration for Neil finally peaked when at 4-1 he switched the radio off in disgust. England were out of the World Cup to our archive rivals. We would be arriving at our new home in England just as the euphoria of the World Cup came to an abrupt end. I hoped this wasn't an omen.

And so, by 5pm we were settled into our hotel, which would be home for the next couple of days. It was Sunday and we would be getting the keys to the house on Tuesday. The pups were used to living in hotel rooms by now and soon made themselves at home while we went for some dinner. We could only leave the pups in the room providing we were somewhere in the hotel, if we left the hotel, the pups had to go out with us. It meant that we were a little restricted in where we could go as the weather was too warm for us to leave them in the car for very long but, we had decided our first job would be to sort a UK car out as driving the left hand drive Spanish car was not ideal on the English roads and we could certainly take the dogs with us while we car hunted.

Before leaving Spain we had contacted some companies in the UK that dealt in LHD cars, so we had an idea how much we would be able to sell it for. Not as much as we would if we'd sold it in Spain, but we needed something to drive back in and decided we would use a LHD company over here to sell it on for us.

After dinner I settled down with my laptop to start searching for cars for us to look at, that was something that could easily be done while we waited for Tuesday to arrive.

Neil had been really good in agreeing to move back to the UK, as he had been really well settled in Spain but, he had attached a couple of conditions. The main one involved the car he wanted. His dream was to own a Jaguar, S-type. Always had been as long as I have known him, almost 13 years. I'd agreed with him that IF he could find one for the same amount as we would get for selling the Spanish car - he could have one.

His shopping list was:

Jaguar S-type
Diesel
Sat Nav
Red

After an hour on the internet we had a list of garages to visit, the first 3 wishes were no problem, the colour was a little trickier. I had always been told when buying a 2nd hand car you can choose almost anything but the colour. Red was not a common colour so Neil had resigned himself to the fact he may have to have a green one, or a silver one. We planned our route for Monday to visit the various garages which had cars that fitted the wish list and then we settled down for the evening, knowing tomorrow would not be another long distance drive.

After 2,500km we had finally arrived.

Our Spanish adventure was over.