So, as with all things, the trip is now officially over.

A whopping 74 days on the road, many people have been met and many sights have been seen.. And it was great even with the setbacks i encountered.. Then again, what would a journey be without some setbacks?

For the last leg of the trip, i took the mindset of "i am going home" and i pretty much put the pedal to the metal for the rest of the remaining kilometres... And i can tell you that starting a little before 8 am and finishing a little over midnight was a loong day behind the wheel... Strangely enough, after midnight i felt that i could still go on; but with a little less than 1500km, it was quite enough of driving for one go.

And it is pretty much as i said, not much to see on the way, here's couple of pics anyhow.

Was a good morning with the warm sunshine making itself known.

I did say pedal to the metal, but wood on pedal works quite aswell.

The night time started to be foggy again, but easy roads just going straight on the highway.

Last morning abroad, sweden was almost completely snow free.

As it started, so it will end.

And finally getting back home.. Was a nice morning with lots of sunshine..

And as it is cold in here, need to light up the fireplace. Here i am, again!

Getting there one country at a time.. I guess my final stopping place of notice was at Sylvain and Virginie's place next to Bordeaux.

Got there for the weekend to spend it with them.

Well, actually i went to work with Sylvain for the saturday morning, he sells and installs windows so i just went with him to give a hand.. A little work to get back on track after all this vacationing.

Then obviosly it was time to check some jetskis.

And do a little fix on the van before continuing towards the coldness..

Random picture they had on their wall, which i liked.

The french have a funny way of transporting jetskis..

I had to show them the finnish way of transporting jetskis.

And i just could not help myself when i found a great deal on an another jetski....

Then it was finally time to say goodbye to Bordeaux and continue. I parked at the parking space of a lidl store and got to enjoy the sunset in the evening and in the morning the sunrise.

Otherwise i am just on the road.. Not much to see while driving but this advertisement made me laugh.

I might not take any more pictures anymore as i think there is pretty much nothing of interest anymore on the way.. We will see. Did manage to reach Belgium today so not many days left anymore before getting to cold Scandinavia.

This was one of the last pictures of Portugal i took before getting back to Spain.

I headed up the coast towards Playa de las Catedrales which was actually really nice!

The road there then again was not.. 

Found one of the most challenging roads of the trip.. Was really narrow, winding up and down and doing crazy 90 degree turns; all accompanied with this really thick fog. On the lower picture, just outside of that iron fence was quite a big drop down to a valley..

Well, even though it was challenging and i did that section of the road at a crawling pace (the speed limit was 90km/h, i went at most at 40km/h), the sights on the next spot were awesome.

This was with high tide and quite rough seas..

I stayed there for the night as i wanted to see how it is at low tide; someone came to the parking area selling some freshly made patisseries in the morning also which was nice. 

So low tide was actually really awesome, here is all the pics i took from that place.. I loved it.

Weather was quite cold and raining as you can see from my clothing...

On a side note, taking panorama pics going from down to up, is a great way to catch some more monumental moments.. As you can see on the pictures above, you can really get a feel of the sheer size and sights to behold.

After playing on the beach i headed again on the road and ended up in this small town called Laredo.

It felt really cozy and i got to surf a little the next day aswell.

Then it was again back on the road..

The snowy mountain peaks did not really motivate me to move up north towards home... 

Alright, so, as soon as i got on the road, i wanted to get to the sea.

And what a more iconic place than Nazare. The worlds biggest waves have been recorded here.

It is a beautiful place with the old town on top of a hill and the rest of the town right on the beach.

At the far end of the hill is the lighthouse, which also serves as a museum of surfboards that have been used to surf these giant waves; and a jetski.

The view was really awesome from the lighthouse, above is Praia du norte side.

I did manage to see the guy riding his jetski in 6 to 8 metres high waves, and i was really inspired.. Sadly i did not get to meet him in person, that would have been nice, but there's always a next time

Above is pictured the view towards the town of Nazare, below is the chuch in the old town. There was some sort of carnival also going on so you can see the people were dressed up.

Below is from the town, there was like i said a carnival of sorts and a free concert right next to the beach.

The small streets were a very interesting sight.

Someone had abandoned their camper in the middle of the bush, found it while walking back to my car from the old town.

And on my bike ride to the store was an interesting mural.

Was awesome that Mikko came all the way from Finland to meet me up, we spend a couple days just wandering around with his rental car.

Was a bit easier and faster to go with the rental than using my van.

Spend lots of time in Nazare aswell and here are some pics again from there.

Notice the small dot on the waves, that is the guy on his jetski in huge waves.

Some issues with the rescue jetskis could be seen, the sea is unforgiving in these more than rough conditions.

I did spend a lot of time just sitting on the beach chilling... The sea has a very calming and meditative effect.

The view from a restaurant on the top was awesome.

Below you can see what was happening pretty much everyday in the sea.. Takes a lot of courage and know how to be able to tackle these (small for Nazare) waves.

So yes, all things come to an end, and this was the end of my enlongated visit to Madrid.

Was really different from what i expected, and way longer than i anticipated..

Luckily i know some friends over there, so the time spent was not too challenging.

The last thing to share of my Madrid adventure was that i got to help George in his filmmaking, here's some bits from that.

So George is making an action movie, and this location was an abandoned warehouse. Above we see a couple pics of what is happening behind the scenes and a movie prop hand.. 

What was really nice though was that i got to participate in a scene. The setting of the scene is that we are in prison and the main protagonist comes there and has to get some information from the bad guy. I got to play the thug that is serving the bad guy.. Will be nice to see the actual scene once the film is done.

The prop folding knife with some fake blood on it.. We destroyed two of these knives so i had to hold the blade with my thumb while doing the scene..

Like i said was very interesting to see how movies are made by being there in person. It is quite a long process and in these two days, i reckon we managed to get like maybe 10 minutes of actual footage.

After this, i got to finally start on the road again and headed straight to Portugal to go see the sea and possibly surf a little.

This last picture is the border crossing, was quite narrow.. But i managed to safely cross over.