Last Sunday we rode down a local voie verte accompanied by our sprollie dog Cézanne. But this time I wasn’t hauling the DoggyHut trailer. And the reason was that our old spaniel Zola is no longer with us. In some ways it was a melancholic ride, but in other ways heartening. Zola was an old boy – three months shy of… Read more »
Our old dog Zola loves to ride in his Doggy Hut. He glides along, gazing imperiously at the passing scenery like some pampered prince. And now we’ve finally got it on video. I got a GoPro for Xmas but this was the first chance to try it out properly. It was a blazingly bright day, bitterly cold in the wind,… Read more »
It’s great when a plan actually works. We bought bikes in order to exercise the dogs down the voies vertes. Our young sprollie, Cézanne, needs to go further than we want (or have time) to walk. But our old boy, Zola, is never going to be able to run alongside as we cycle, so we needed a trailer for him. And… Read more »
The recently inaugurated Vélo Francette (VF) cycle route runs from Ouistreham (that’s the port at Caen to most travellers) to La Rochelle – a distance of over 600km. Our ambition on this ride was somewhat more modest. There’s a stretch of the VF that runs south from Flers to our local town of Domfront, which is where we started. It’s… Read more »
Trish and I aren’t the only ones impatient for our bikes to arrive. After all, we originally hit on the idea of cycling because of our dogs. To be accurate, it was mainly because of Cézanne, our 18 month-old sprollie (springer spaniel x border collie). He has enormous energy. Our regular walk down the local voie verte only gets him… Read more »
