Rufus does Europe

A late get up cost us £14 this morning – think we could’ve parked overnight for free, but as we were still there at 9:30 we got the knock on the door 🙄 Guy negotiated some tiny roads and even

Straight to Inverness this morning. First stop, Go Outdoors for some more walking socks for Guy, who only has one pair and washes his socks by night like a shepherd. 😉 Had a walk around the city centre…quite small with

Thought we’d make it to Inverness today, but everything took longer than we anticipated. When we reached the car park for the Fyrish Monument, the sign said it was a 2 mile walk. Up hill of course, but it was

Driving south today, we decided to give Wick a miss other than a quick stock up at Tesco. Got cheap(ish) diesel there too – no queues at all. Think the Scots have maybe been a bit more sensible about the

As it was a clear day this morning, we walked back to the light house and up the hill for amazing views of the Orkneys, especially Hoy with the ‘Old Man of Hoy’ stack on its eastern side. First stop

Been a full on rainy day today so we started driving along the north coast and just kept going. I’d half expected the roads to be a bit wider up here, but still single track with passing places for most

Decided to stay another day on the campsite to give Guy a rest from driving and save him from the sheer terror of the wife driving. 😂 He got up early to watch the sunrise and borrowed a lens ball

Rude awakening at 7:30am this morning when Bob the Builder turned up, along with Scoop, Muck and Dizzy 😂 We were kind of half expecting it – think we got stitched up by the Leisure Centre who said it’d be

Ullapool was a bit of a let down in the grey drizzle. Parked up near Tesco with what seemed like a hundred other motorhomes. It felt wrong to us, like we were taking over the car park…couldn’t wait to escape.

We’ve decided that you don’t get anywhere quickly in north west Scotland. It’s quite confusing trying to work out where we are at times…especially when the phone signal disappears. We headed towards Gairloch first, passing by Ben Eigh. The scenery