Thursday 29 August 2013 By: Jan D

Camping Trip

Well our camping trip mid August was a total success!
We used Les' van to travel to the Lake District (as we have so much stuff). I was more than a little worried about Ellie travelling in the back of the van alone, but she coped just fine. She was in her travel crate, which fastened onto the bulkhead.We got to the site on Monday afternoon and had a lot of setting up to do. Our friends, and their 5 month old poodle, were there already and just finishing off setting up. We attached Ellie to her lead stake (with a long chain lead) and she was just fine.
Her and Biscuit (the poodle) got on really well (though Biscuit was a bit wary of her at first).




Ellie had a thing or two to teach Biscuit however:

"Now, try to look a cute as you can and you will get a treat!"

 
Ellie totally loved the outdoor life and took to camping immediately. We went on some wonderful walks, and, in the evenings sat round our camp-fire. Ellie was worn out by the late evenings though, and one night, she literally went to stand in front of our tent until we let her in and we all had to go to bed!
We visited Keswick on two of the days (Keswick is a 'doggy town' and almost every other person has a dog on-lead). It's wonderful to see the interaction between so many different breeds of dog.
The weather was just fine for most of the week, but, on the last night there was a really bad storm (which was quite scary). Here's a video of the beginning of it (the high winds followed later):


All in all it was such a wonderful break, one which will be repeated many times I'm sure. Here is a link to some of the photos we took:




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