We arrived Friday and after introducing my 2 girls to Karens gang, chilled out for the rest of the day drinking tea and catching up on all news - my idea of heaven. All the dogs good on really well and within a few minutes you'd have thought they'd always been together - JJ liked Angel a little bit too much so we had to keep an eye on him to start off with but the novelty of a 'new girl' on campus soon wore off and he went back to doing his own thing :o) Contrary to what people have said, Karen IS a good cook and we sat down to a yummy dinner before settling down with a couple of glasses of vino and more chatting.
The next day we went into the local village for a look round and sat on the harbour eating a delicious local delicacy - honey ice cream - absolutely mouth watering it was. All the dogs behaved impeccably and caused quite a lot of attention with most people not knowing what either breed were so a million questions were asked and the dogs got lots of fuss and tickles which they all loved of course.
Then it was off to the beach for a fantastic walk - to say the dogs enjoyed it would be an understatement - Ebene and Angel had never been on a beach before let alone see the sea but the sheer joy on their faces was a picture and they just couldn't keep out of the water!! There was a lovely stream that fed into the sea so on our way back they all went splashing through it, washing all the sand off before we headed back through the woods to the car. What a fantastic place for dogs, makes me want to move there solely for that reason. Everyone was so dog friendly, unlike what its becoming here in the South. All our beaches ban dogs from 1st May until October which I think is very unfair, they could at least have a couple that allowed us on.
We headed back to Karens for more tea and to feed the dogs then off we went again to the village and sat outside eating the BEST fish and chips (with a pot of curry sauce) I've ever eaten and of course more tea :o)
After we got back we didn't hear a peep out of the dogs for the rest of the night they were shattered!
Sunday morning came and after doing all the necessities we headed of to our friends beautiful place in Pembrokeshire for the annual Spinone Party which is held to raise money for Spinone Rescue and Rehome. Cant tell you how many people/dogs were there but it was well over 100 + all dogs were off lead and having a whale of a time. There was lots of activities organised and Gatsby the Vax Spinone was there selling kisses for the cause - Vax also donated an all singing all dancing carpet cleaner and one of those steam floor mops to the raffle and lucky Karen won the cleaner :o) Too many things were going on to talk about them all on here but the upshot was that everyone had an ab fab day and can't wait until the next one. Huge well done to Babs and Mark for organising it all and handing over their home to everyone. Sadly at 6 o'clock I couldn't put it off any longer - I had to load up and head for home.
Once again Karen, thank you so much for the great weekend - I enjoyed every single minute of it and know Angel and Ebene did too and here are the pictures you took of them to prove it :o)
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