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Romanian Flag Day Special Offer!

The Romanian flag (Drapelul României) is flown across Romania every year on 26th June.

Flag Day symbolizes Romania’s independence. Romania’s national flag is a blue, yellow and red tricolor, with the colors arranged in vertical bands of equal size. The three colors symbolize the three Romanian provinces – Wallachia (yellow), Moldavia (red), and Transylvania (blue).

To celebrate Flag Day in my favourite country, my ebook ‘Dogs ‘n’ Dracula: A Road Trip Through Romania‘ is reduced to 99p/99c for the next couple of days on Amazon UK and US. Click here to find it on your local Amazon store.

UK Animal Health Certificates – What You Need To Know

Black and white image of cavalier king charles spaniel looking through wrought iron balcony railings

With printable checklists

Updated with new information 22nd April 2026

Don’t leave your best friend behind!

Since the Brexit transition period ended on 1^st of January 2021, taking your pets abroad from the UK involves much more red tape. On 9^th December 2020, The European Union announced that from 1^st January 2021, Britain, except Northern Ireland, will have ‘Part 2’ listed status for pets (dogs, cats and ferrets) travelling to the EU.

Note: Following the UK/EU Summit in May 2025, UK-issued pet passports may be back on the table, although the timescale has not been confirmed. In the meantime, UK pets still need an Animal Health Certificate or valid pet passport to travel. For more information, see my post Reintroduction of UK Pet Passports: A Gateway to Freedom for British Pets

New EU Pet Passport Regulations From 22nd April 2026 – An EU pet passport, issued to or held by a pet owner who is resident in GB, will no longer be a valid document for travelling with pets from GB to the EU. This applies to EU pet passports issued in an EU Member State or Northern Ireland, including those issued before 22 April 2026. EU pet passports may only be issued to owners whose main residence is within the European Union. For more details, see my post New Rules for GB Pets using EU Pet Passports in April 2026 & What This Means in Practice

Find The Best Books – Shepherd.com

As a lifelong bookworm and now an author, I am so chuffed to have been asked to combine my passions and participate in Shepherd.com, an exciting new way to discover books online.

Each entry on the Shephed.com website is a list of the five best books on a topic, recommended and reviewed by experts in the field; i.e. authors with authority on that subject. Click here or on the image below to go to my contribution, on Getting to Know Romania And Her People, which I am qualified to make after spending three months touring Romania in a caravan with four (then five!) dogs.

Checkpoint Bravo, Berlin & A Boar

If you go down in the woods today, you’re in for a BIG surprise…

Sitting in the sun, overlooking tranquil waters, I wondered why I felt so out of sorts.

Our plans are constantly up in the air. Usually, that’s a fun part of our nomad lifestyle; when it’s pursuing a recommendation here or a must-see there. Unfortunately, it’s been more about infection spikes here and quarantine imposed there. Sadly, travelling in a pandemic, keeping abreast of the news has become a necessary evil.

Yesterday, we’d chased across almost the full width of Poland, from Lublin to Poznań, because we felt the need to get closer to home, just in case the borders closed. We had been looking forward to some windsurfing in Brittany, to make up for missing out on Poland’s north coast, but with coronavirus case numbers rising in France, that was not a given. In coronavirus times, uncertainty is the new certainty.

However, there is a positive side to being forced to watch the news. Had we not, we would have missed the cheeringly insane video of a middle-aged Berlin naturist giving chase to a wild boar, which had snatched his laptop.