Rufus does Europe

Any ideas of more walking went out of the window this morning when it started raining. There was also a fresh dusting of snow on the mountains and as the car park filled up we thought it was time to

I think we’ve just about done a full circuit of the Picos mountains now. We’ve come to the other end of the Cares Gorge which is less than 20 km from where we were yesterday, but more towards 100km when

There was a whirling dervish in the van this morning at 8am 🙄…cooking ‘take n bakes”, packing rucksacks, making coffee. “Come on, come on! “ …zzzz 😖- no time to gorm out of the window or even digest the muesli.

Glad we did the cable car yesterday as it was quite windy this morning and we wouldn’t have fancied doing it with added swing! Couldn’t decide which route to take as we wanted to be on the other side of

Made our way through some spectacular scenery this morning. The roads are good but very bendy and slow, especially when there’s a giant pig out for a walk! We arrived in Potes at lunchtime..it’s a very attractive little town with

Bit of a driving day today as we wanted to get just south of the Picos mountains and there was nowhere we wanted to visit in between. Had a stop for lunch and then for a quick Lidl shop in

Woke up to a grey drizzly morning. Abandoned the castle idea as the view was fast disappearing. Forgot to mention yesterday that the trees are full of white cobwebby balls – apparently they are the nests of the processionary caterpillar

What utter fools we were last night deciding to turn the heating off when we knew the temperature was going to drop below freezing. This morning, there was no water from the taps – the frost valve had kicked in

We’ve just had three days chez Bramley after spending Tuesday morning searching every butchers in the Gers region for belly pork! Guy wanted to cook his speciality dish for his mum’s birthday. We got some in the end but not

A bit more meandering alongside the Dordogne river this morning. We came across La Roque-Gageac, a stunning little village built under overhanging cliffs. It has a scary looking staircase built into the side of said cliffs which takes you up