3 dogs, 2 humans, 1 van, touring around Europe sniffing out adventures
Journey: Unguimuiza – Césis – Cécili Nature Trail – Ligatne – Secret Soviet Bunker – Sigulda – Gūtmanala – Turaida Wow have we packed a lot into today! At 8am I was up and out running around the grounds of Unguimuiza Manor and found a tree named after famous chemist Paul Walden – having pulled …
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Journey: Tartu – Otepaii – Sangaste Castle – Sietiniezis (Latvia) – Unguimuiza We were rewarded for doing our laundry with a free live band in the park, so I had a little bop by a giant rubber duck while trying to persuade Ernest he wouldn’t like the spiral potato or candyfloss stalls. Great fun, and …
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Journey: Pärnu – Sooma National Park – Viljandi – Tartu Pärnu is a lovely town full of green spaces, we walked through Villi Park and Rannapark while enroute to the beach only to find out dogs weren’t allowed, but nevermind Mabel and Jasper still found some sand to roll in on the promenade. We then …
Journey: Tallinn – Haapsalu – Matsalu National Park – Pärnu If I ever wake up with a crick in my neck I know why – but how cute he wants to be close ❤️ We woke to pouring rain and the forecast was for it to last all day. Mark confessed he was happy to skip today …
Journey: Porvoo – Helsinki – Tallinn (Estonia) The pups are so funny, they make it very clear that town and city walks are boring. Rather than the usual high speed end of lead pulling we get in forests when they are darting from smell to smell, in towns Jasper and Mabel drag their paws like …
Journey: Salpa Asema – Kayralemmon – Ahvionkoski – Kotka – Porvoo When you live in a van 24/7 with someone you have very little privacy or personal space. This makes things like present buying/wrapping difficult. I’d managed to snaffle a bag of gingers into the van unnoticed and hid them in my bag intending to …
Journey: Koli National Park – Joensuu – Salpa Asema Despite being only 5 minutes from Koli National Park it was still 10am before we made it. I’m just useless in the morning; I’ve got to have my doggy cuddles, meditate, lots of coffee, potter about…it takes me ages lol. The other morning I had made …
Journey: Komulankongas – Kajaarni – Tiilikkajarva National Park – Koli Nature Centre We are literally going from one National Park to the next and it’s wonderful being out in nature so much. Driving in between them we are listening to various podcasts and today’s Sustainabable one talked about how treadmills were originally made as a …
Journey: near Russia – Oulanka National Park – Kuusamo The Silent People – Variscongas waterfall So Markles got back from his bear watch at 7am with the biggest smile on his face. He has written the next bit: Bears have always been my favourite animal, so when I saw details of watching them, I knew …
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Journey: Posio – Riisitunturi – Ristikallio – 2km from Russia In Posio we had camped outside a beautiful ceramics gallery so we had a lovely look around there, then visited a small museum linked to the shop. I’d accidentally taken us to the wrong part of Riisitunturi National Park so we ended up on dirt …
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