Rufus does Europe

What a day! Non-stop traffic jams and so many people around. We were expecting it here as it is August, but everywhere seems so different when it’s this busy. Last night there was a huge electrical storm and then a

A touch of user error this morning when we tried to get out of the motorhome park. The barrier thing looked simple enough – just insert ticket with bar code, then pay. I tried putting the ticket in several times

More wiggly mountain roads this morning leading us south towards Udine where it got hotter and hotter.  Didn’t even get out of the van at lunchtime ..I think we would have fried. Guy sat with the cab door open which

Had the best night’s sleep in months last night and didn’t wake up till 9am! This was quite surprising as our Italian neighbour did a full on spring clean of all his lockers and levelled his van up at midnight

Thought we’d try a different route over the alps – never heard of this one, but boy was it steep. The van was in second gear for a lot of it. We were wondering why google maps didn’t want to

Short drive south to Füssen this morning and found some out of the way parking up by a sports centre.  We wanted to walk up to the Marienbrücke bridge for a view of the Neuschwanstein Castle which was just a

Memmingham ^ So humid today, I think we were both happy to keep driving for the luxury of air con!  We slept with our bedroom windows wide open last night in what was the equivalent of Attenborough Nature Reserve 🤣

Busy sort of day. Guy started the long drive towards Belgium via Lille, whilst I carefully planned in an easy to get to hypermarket en-route and more importantly, while we were still in France, so we could stock up with

Oh hello …it’s us again, on a mission to get to Türkiye this time. Got all the green card stuff and hopefully a bit more prepared than last time, when we got stuck in the middle of Istanbul for four

Ah yes, forgot to say we’re home. Well, it takes three days to surface from the washing, but at least storm Kathleen is helping to dry it all.Good run back from Folkestone, van back in storage and just the one