Rufus does Europe

That very lucky afternoon/evening we had yesterday turned into a very unlucky night!We should know by now never to park near a park bench! About 8:30pm a few Moroccan men came up to chat bringing a folding chair for extra

Quite often in Spain you just come across stuff quite by chance and we had such a lucky strike today.After a long day of driving and being unable to decide where to go, we finally headed inland from Barcelona to

After much debate, we decided to head back to Spain today. Trying to avoid the outbreak of dengue fever which is being spread by the tiger mosquitoes around Antibes. It’s a shame, as the Côte d’Azur was the region we

The fish market was relatively quiet this morning..so much so, we overslept and had to adapt our plans for the day. Two buses became one train and a thirty minute walk to catch it.After arriving at La Couronne train station

Right, birthday today, so let’s talk about Guy’s present to me first.Yesterday, I was nudging him in to card shops as I didn’t think he would have remembered to get one before we came away – he had!The present though…a

A bit of faffing around today with a pit stop at Lidl first as we were running out of drinking water.Then, on to Saint-Rémy, where there was a difficult parking meter to negotiate – I somehow managed to get a

Sure I’m probably the only person that didn’t realise that the Pont d’Avignon, from the song, is now only about half a pont and ends rather abruptly in the middle of the Rhône! You live and learn!Well, it was quite

Woke up to the sound of rain this morning, so we decided to have a leisurely brunch before moving on. I think it’s the first time we’ve ever set the smoke alarm off in the van. It couldn’t handle the

Well, it was quite funny this morning. At least fifty percent of these older people in motorhomes managed to get up and scarper before the money man came round at 8am! 🤣🤣🤣It was the mass exodus that woke me up.There

We decided to do a bit of motorway today in order to get to the Camargue region without going miles inland first. Both breathed a sigh of relief at the €14 charge ..we actually thought it would be more after