Rufus does Europe

A cross country route for us today, back to the blue town of Chefchaouen.We chose a ‘no tolls’ route thinking it would be more interesting and thankfully, the road surfaces were good for most of the way. Had to go

Short drive today up to Asilah. I think we’re only about 50km below Tangier now, although it’s not on our hit list.Another whitewashed little seaside town, this one Portuguese in origin, but so much cleaner than Larache.Pulled into a tiny

Well, it was definitely another wedding last night, with all the accompanying music and late night/early morning car horns. I think the police came and stopped the boy racer in the end before he shredded his tyres completely.We walked into

We had to head back towards Meknes this morning as it seemed to have the only Carrefour with suitable parking. Luckily we skirted the top end of Fez to get out and it was much easier than yesterday’s drive in.Got

At long last …a wonderful night’s sleep. It was quite noisy later on but didn’t hear a thing between 11pm and 8:15am! Either it was really quiet or sheer exhaustion knocked us out.Thinking we may have missed something yesterday, we

It was quite entertaining at first last night. We watched a man turn up in his car, have a quick check around for police, pop on a high vis armband, get out a plastic chair then start collecting money for

Ok, I’ll take back everything I said about Morocco’s Atlantic coast yesterday. 🤣 Rabat is one of the cleanest cities I’ve ever been in!Drove in this morning with echoes of the Casablanca madness as we neared the city centre. There’s

The driver had a much needed day off today. We’re on quite a nice, well organised campsite that leads straight out on to a little beach but what a dirty, rubbish strewn mess it is all around.Got a bit of

After yet another noisy night, we were like two zombies this morning. Unfortunately, it was Casablanca or bust today as there were no proper campsites until we got north of it.We had parking earmarked right outside the Hassan ll Mosque

Somewhere between 1 and 2am this morning, several cars did several circuits of the town honking their horns, wheel spinning and exhaust popping. I think this is usually a wedding celebration, but not sure why it had to be done