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Gus is 1 today! 🎉 (well there abouts) So here’s a blurry, jolty video of our first bike ride together a few days after we found him, I guess you could say he was down for an adventure since day one! As he was so tiny he spent a lot of time stuffed in backpacks/down the front of jackets, from the sunshine of Montenegro to the chilly slopes of the Alps and now back home where he’s now big enough to be heading out under his own steam. This tiny little black ball of attitude couldn’t bring more joy/frustration to our lives and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Here’s to many many many more years trying to tame your wild ways Gustav, you’re not too bad really ♥️

Beach front apartment with a pretty good sea view 🌊 Croatia was amazing for these seafront park ups, it was around this time last year that we headed there and it was a brilliant time of year, 25/26 degrees, and quieter than the summer months too. ~ Back to the present - I don’t know if it’s related to his injection but Gus is being so good on his walks the last two days (especially considering he’s getting less exercise because of Syl) he’s sticking much closer, coming back when called far more quickly (even immediately quite a lot of the time) and even walked to heel for a good five minutes without pelting off to visit some dogs close by today. We’ve definitely been working on things with him so I’d like to thing it’s partly that too (I can but hope!) but it’s nice to see hints of what a brill little dog he can be and his enthusiasm when he comes racing back can’t help but make you smile.

We’ve seen some damn good views out of this big slidey door! This amazing sunset was in Finland, we pulled up and there was a festival with all the locals attending, a friendly man who came straight over and said we *had* to try some of the freshly caught fish 🎣 and then a party which went late into the night. I love pulling up and experiencing a snapshot into other people’s lives, especially when they’re as friendly as the man with the fish recommendation! 🐟

As you might have seen in stories Syl was spayed on Friday. Al and I were a bag of nerves but it went well and in her checkup today she practically dragged me into the vets and licked the vet on the nose when she was checking her over so seemingly no long-term trauma done 😂 It seems they spoiled her rotten when she was in there and were also super complimentary of how well behaved she was so I’m v proud of her. Gus on the other hand is not happy after his injection he had to mimic the effects of him being castrated (we wanted to see if it would help with his behaviour towards certain dogs without the risk of it making it worse and the obvious problem of not being able to reverse it once he’s been done). It’s going to take around 7 days to start working so we’re really interested to see how that goes. So we’re currently four days in and Syl is resembling the mad-eyed creature she was here, god only knows how excited she’ll be when she’s no longer restricted to ten minute lead only walks! 🤪

Heading back to Wales after nearly a week at home for my brothers birthday! 🎈Weekends are never long enough so it’s been lovely to have a good few days with Mum and Dad and Tom and managed to get a few jobs done on the van too which was really good (still plenty left to do though!) After being away for so long I’m really enjoying being much closer to home, seeing everyone more regularly and being able to just whizz home or to go see friends ☺️ Here’s a photo from a month or so ago when Tom and his girlfriend Abbie decided to surprise us in Wales at the exact same time that Pete - one of the van crew from Morzine did! They both happened to pull up almost at the very same time, which was a funny coincidence but such a good one! ☀️

This was a lovely spot in Poland - apart from an older couple who had a dog and a caravan and left their dog tied to a tree for the entirety of the two days we were there (why do some people have pets!?) and the massive pile of litter left just out of view. We got chatting to a lovely local girl who told us that it used to be a beautiful place but in recent years it had become much more popular, bringing locals from all around and their rubbish. Blows my mind how people can see a place so pretty yet leave their crap (sometimes literally) spread about. There was so much that we couldn’t physically clear it all up but we tidied what we could and bagged it next to the bin 🗑 If there’s anything we took home from our trip it was the importance of #leavenotrace, so many wonderful places spoilt by people’s laziness and selfishness. Among other things we try and pick up all the litter we see on walks and use less plastic when we’re shopping. Are there any other ways you guys try and reduce your impact? Would love to be made aware of more ways we could too! ♻️

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