Ola! Blog here, International Travel Dog.
Day Two of the Camper Van Experiment has seen us cross the border into Spain. Landing initially in San Sebastian, a picturesque seaside resort on the Atlantic coast.
Arriving in the centre, it immediately felt too urban – cars, people, businesses, busyness. We stopped at one end of Bay of La Concha and took a walk to look back at the town. Cracking view, and we were rewarded by a sculpture called The Wind Comb.
Happening upon a small coastal road that ran above the cliffs, we continued westwards and stopped at a place called Zarautz. This was more like it. Smaller, quieter, with a beautiful beach and plenty of grass.
It has to be admitted that we opted for the ease of a camp site – with luxuries such as toilets and hot showers. Bliss (for the humans). The parking spot was on a headland overlooking the sea and the beach, with the mountains on the other side. Gorgeous.
And – deep joy, we could be let off our leads – hooray!
The camp site was practically deserted, just a few other camper vans – all MASSIVE compared to ours. Most folk seemed to have a doggie or two with them. All this running about is thirsty work – time to investigate the local bar, check out the cervezas and the basque tapas, of course. These are called pintxos.
And work out what we do tomorrow (to be continued).
Hey Blog, I thought you were on INTERPOL’s MOST WANTED list…how did you cross the border, collie?
Hi Magic, Dallas says that I am only Most Wanted for my devilish good lucks and engaging persona (haha) – oh, and a couple of rabbit murders. I have my own passport, you know. Blog
Hi there, do you still use this blog? I would love to contact you to ask a few questions about border collies (I have an 18 week old white faced blue eyed collie). Many thanks & hope you are well, Liz.
Hello Liz, Blog has not been tending very well to his blog, but we do receive the comments. Please ask anything you like, Dallas
Thanks for the reply, that is great! Do you use twitter or do you have a direct email I could contact you? I would like to show you a few pics of my puppy to find out your opinion on a few issues. Have you always tended to have white faced collies & have you ever experienced health issues with them? My girl Bronwen has 2 blue eyes (her Mum had 1 blue & 1 brown & the father to our knowledge had 2 brown eyes). What is bizarre is that out of a litter of 7 pups Bronwen was the only pup to have blue eyes & a white face! The rest of the pups were traditional black/white border collies (with 2 tri-coloureds in there as well). She also has very unusual facial markings (like black/grey spots on her ear). In general she is a pretty unusual looking sheepdog lol! Look forward to hearing from you 🙂 Lizzy x (my email is lizzy_24324@hotmail.com if it is easier to contact that way)