Rufus does Europe

Lovely quiet night by the sea with the occasional howling of jackals, but we had to move this morning as we needed to fill up with water and drain. Decided to go to Methóni as it was only 8km away

Drove further south today, back to Koróni as we thought we might have missed some of it last September due to difficult parking. We had! Found a better place to park this time, on the far side of the town.

A trip back to Kalamata today. We thought we’d go back to see the nice chap that sold us some really good olive oil last year. Parking was a bit technical as there was a full on outdoor market today.

Strange weather last night. Just before we went to bed, this really hot breeze came out of nowhere. It was suddenly so humid; the temperature gauge said it was 28 degrees outside! It then dawned on us that we didn’t

Wedding anniversary today – can’t believe 30 years have gone by with my best mate. Nice, warm, sunny day and we had a bottle of Moët to drink courtesy of the lovely Hardwick family. Made a start of it at

Meandered up the coast a bit further this morning and headed for an Acsi campsite in Stoupa. It’s all a bit overgrown, but it’s cheap and the owner has been very helpful. It’s been the first really warm day today,

Tootled around all day really, driving from one place to the next. I think this is one of our favourite bits of Greece as it’s quite a wild rugged landscape but with some beautiful white pebble beaches and turquoise sea.

There was no rain forecast overnight, but it tipped it down. Being parked on a beach, there’s always that worry that you might sink into the wet sand and not be able to get out. 😬Fortunately, by morning, it had

Both parties very tired today 😂One feels like he’s cycled 100 miles (that’s what walking in sand does for you!) and the other didn’t sleep for some unknown reason. We dragged ourselves north towards the nearest Lidl, taking the inland

First mistake of the day – both used the bumper sized bottle of Garnier body moisturiser on arms and legs and thought it was a bit sticky and very difficult to rub in. Now, I’m not sure why Guy’s legs