Category: Travels with Spike

Manhattan Beach, little bubble of opulence that it is, is a good place to be a dog and it doesn’t matter if you rent the […]

Hood River is a vibey place, more bo-ho chic than hippie but definitely laid back and totally cool. The town of Hood River on the […]

Hearst’s Castle, about 3 hours north of Los Angeles (more if you take into account the appalling traffic out of the city) is a great […]

Oostende (the Flemish spelling) is a resort and fishing town on the Belgium Coast overlooking the English Channel in the North Sea. It has been […]

Dogs don’t usually go to ski resorts because no doubt there are better places to hang out while “mom” and “dad” are on the slopes […]

The Afsluitdijk is a marvel of Dutch engineering in their infinite quest to keep the sea away from their low-lying land. There really is no […]

The Wadden Islands (or Frisian Islands) are a group of five barrier islands that shield the mudflat region of the Wadden Sea from the North […]

Dutch beaches are fun for people and dogs.  They are wide, flat, bikini-top optional ….. Of course, the weather is not always co-operative. We always […]

The Province of Friesland (now referred to as Fryslan) is a province in the North West of Holland.  If water territory is counted, it is […]

Our next home in the Netherlands, after Hillegom in the flower-growing area of the country, was a little town near Leiden called Leiderdorp.  It lies […]