The Fab Four were featured as the Christmas Superstar Pets in online magazine, Sixtyplus Surfers!
The link changes each month, so it no onger works, but here are the details of their travelling lifestyle, how they inspire me, and what they are doing on Romania’s highest road….
Hi Sixtyplus Surfers
Here is my picture of The Fab Four Travelling Cavapoos (Cavalier/Poodle cross) at around 2,145 metres (7,037 ft), taken today near the top of the Transalpina, the highest mountain pass in Romania.
From left to right, The Pawsome Foursome are Kai, Ruby, Rosie and Lani.
My husband Mark and I retired in 2016, accidentally bought a caravan, then, over a bottle of celebratory champagne, decided to rent out the house and tour Europe full time with our fur family. We intended to travel for 3 years, but we love it so much, we’re not stopping any time soon!
Since 2016, The Fab Four have visited nearly 20 countries: England (home), France, Italy, Germany, Austria, The Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Poland, and Wales.
In 2020, we decided we wanted to drive to Mongolia. We doubted our caravan would make it across the Gobi Desert, so we bought The Beast, a 6×4 wheel-drive ex army truck. Unfortunately, then came COVID and Putin’s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine. Since Mongolia would require us to drive through Russia, this rather thwarted our original plans.
Thankfully, there are plenty of other places to see. We finished the conversion in July 2021, and The Beast has been our home ever since. In 2022, we visited the Balkans.
We’re currently in Romania, on our way to Bulgaria and Turkey, before we head back to the UK via Serbia.
The Fab Four are the stars of my doggie travel blog, WorldWideWalkies. I set up the blog not only because people were curious about our travels, but also because they are interested in how we do it. How we fund it and the practicalities of travelling with four dogs. I’ve also received a lot of compliments about how The Fab Four pose so beautifully for photos!
My blog now has followers around the world, but best of all, readers have said that it has inspired them or given them confidence to do something similar, and realise their dreams.
One day, one of my blog followers said, “You should write a book! Even your blog about toilets was a joy to read!”
It took some time to convince me, but since that day, I have published six books in my Adventure Caravanning With Dogs series. They have all been bestsellers on Amazon, received 5* reviews, and my third book, Dogs ‘n’ Dracula: A Road Trip Through Romania won the Chill With A Book Premier Readers’ award and was shortlisted for The Romania Insider Award for Best Promotion of Romania Abroad.
My forthcoming books will follow our adventures in The Beast.
I have always loved writing, but without The Fab Four, I doubt I would ever have realised my dream to publish a book.
I love them dearly for their fun, friendly, and loving personalities. Before we travelled full time, Kai and Rosie were therapy dogs who visited a care home regularly. They still send the ladies postcards, to keep them updated on their travels.
I would not be without them just for who they are, but I am eternally grateful to them for the inspiration they give me every day.
They are VIPs – Very Important Puppies!
DN67C – Courtesy of Razvan Socol, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Well done, the Fab Four could fill a whole calendar. I have sent the link to the Pet Care blog to my friend with the cavapoo. Her dog goes out with her neighbour training for the marathon!
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WOW! That really is a Superstar Cavapoo!
I remember when we got The Fab Four, people thought they were frou frou dogs, but they really are amazing. The breeder told us “they will take as much exercise as you can throw at them.”
Your friend’s cavapoo certainly demonstrates that!
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Congratulations having the joys of your travels shared in the online pet magazine. Your backstory was quite interesting. Happy wandering! 🙂
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Thank you, Nancy!
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Amazing – they don’t look a day over 8 😉
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Tee hee!
They don’t act it, either!
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Great article, although I would like to qualify I wasn’t old enough to access that website, fortunately I didn’t need to present any ID to get in! Gorgeous photo of the pups!
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Thank you!
For the record, I’m not quite old enough.
Not for three months, anyhoo…
I did it on behalf of Mark! 🙂
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I like how they’re sharing equal billing in the photo!
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They’re very egalitarian. Being on French passports and all – Liberte, egalite, fraternite!
Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Beautiful dogs. Do you struggle to find sites that will take more than 4 dogs? We adopted our 3rd rescue dog about 18 months ago and then realised the limitations with many private camp sites only allowing max of 2 in UK!
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We haven’t had too much of a problem. In the UK, both of the major caravan and motorhome clubs (Camping and Caravan Club and Caravan and Motorhome Club) are dog friendly and as far as I’m aware, don’t have limits on the number of dogs they accept. We’ve certainly never had trouble. Some of their sites are very dog friendly, with fenced off exercise areas.
The C&CC and CMC’s small affiliated sites (Certified or Certificated Locations) are privately owned and have their own rules. If we want to stay at a particular site, we usually ring and say we have four small, well-behaved dogs. In general, both here and abroad, we’ve found that sites which specify 1 dog tend to stick to the rule. If they say 2 dogs, they are often open to negotiation, although I’m not sure they’d accept four Great Danes!
These days, because we travel in The Beast, we don’t often camp on organised sites, so the dog issue is even less of a problem. We use apps such as Park4Night to find places to stay.
I hope that helps and happy travels. Thanks for visiting my blog – I really enjoyed visiting yours!
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