Rufus does Europe

Just made it for the 11am boat this morning. We got on board, sat down, then realised there were only about six seats. Suddenly a coach load of ‘pushers and shovers’ turned up. Ordinarily, I would have given my seat

Our aim this morning was to see the Saltstraumen Maelstrom – a strange phenomenon where the huge tidal range produces a mass of whirlpools and plughole effects. This is one of the worlds largest, but we don’t think we saw

The long and winding road from just outside Narvik to Fauske has taken all day. The scenery has changed a bit, from sharp, jagged peaks to great big humps of purple rock. Still winding around fjords though, and it’s still

Spent most of the day driving. The roads are good, but quite narrow which means I have to breathe in when a lorry goes past. There’s some serious tunnelage here too – today’s longest was 6.9km. We stopped for coffee

There was a beautiful sunset over the water last night, but we couldn’t stay up late as the parking ticket ran out at 8am. We’d already gambled on the daytime fee as it would have been another £10 😬 Started

Looking sunny this morning, so we hot tailed it back up the road five miles to Reine. By the time we got there, all the free parking had gone. I must admit it was nearly lunchtime as we’d failed to

Yes, that’s its name – Å. Pronounced ‘Aw’ apparently. It’s the last stop at the bottom of the Lofoten Islands…end of the road. Cloudy start this morning, which is a shame, as the main road followed the coast down through

We got up this morning to find tents and motorhomes all around us…considering we were just in a carpark by the beach, we think this place must be the main weekend attraction for Lofotonites. No wonder really, considering how beautiful

Made our way by road to Unstad this morning – that’s the place we couldn’t reach on foot yesterday. What should have been a 9km walk was half an hours drive! Once there, we wondered why we’d bothered 🙄! It

Saw a sunset last night …haven’t seen one of those for a while! 😀 We are heading south all the time at the moment though, so there is gradually a longer stretch of ‘night time’ although it just stays sort