So, I promised to tell you about my travels and my holidays! Me, dad and mum (sorry, grandpa!), I mean: Dad, mum and me, we were traveling to France! My mum has a French friend over there for more than 40 years!
But her French friend lives far away. Me and mum, we are not so good in long travels by car. I get easily ill in the car and mum after the journey! 😦 So if we go there, we travel 2 days to get there!

I like that! Mum sits next to me in the back of the car. I even can sleep on her lap! Imagine how much we like that! 🙂 Mum even tried to make pics, hahahahaha! 🙂

First we went to Orléans. There my little house came out of the car and in we went, in a very big house! I’m used to big houses, I’m a citygirl! People often are amazed about me going in and out elevators easily, as humans do. Going to restaurants as humans do…

Anyway, when my little house was installed, I saw a second Kita in the room. Hihi! Can’t fool me anymore: that’s a mirror! We went for a nice walk! I saw trees with big balls in it, I had to bark of course. I saw lot of strange things in my life, but footballs in the trees??? 😉

Next day we traveled on and arrived finally at my friend’s place! Yes, I have a friend there too! Mano is his name. He is a grandpa: he will be 15 years old next february. Had to tell Mano the news about my grandpa, going to the Bridge. Mano said: ohohoh, but that’s life, little one! But he was a great fellow, your grandpa… Had lots of play-pleasure in our younger days! 🙂

I was doing as a lady should, I gave him two “bisous” as the French humans do too! Mano is a real gentleman! ❤

My little home goes where I go!

Can’t fool me, it’s a mirror!

Look mum, lots of poppies on this floor!

Footballs in the trees!!! I have to bark!

12 weeks old! What a cutie!!

Look there! Mum went to the hairdresser’s thre!!!

We give “bisous”, Mano and me

Grandpa Lennox remembered it, me too – when he told me! My very wise grandpa understood it faster dan me, of course! He explained when we were in the car! Mum and dad promised to take us back to the seaside in autumn or in winter! Then we could run on the beach, off the leash, she promised! Yes, yes, yes! We did!

Mum made herself a promise too, grandpa said. He did hear her say it: one day I will go to France, with Kita, on foot, on the beach! Well, she did! All promises in one weekend!

Mum and me we went from Belgium to France, and we came back too, of course! On the beach, I could run free, off the leash… At least, most of the time… I did a little stupid thing of course… Yes, I’ll explain it! We were meeting this man and his two dogs. Dogs and dad both very friendly! Explaining we already were in France and that we still had one kilometer to go to get to Bray-Dunes, first village in France.

I played with the dogs and they told me there was some fresh fish on the beach. Of course mum did not understand our dog-language (one day she finally will end up following dog-language-courses!!!), so when we went on, I carefully sniffed! And YES! Found the fish!
I didn’t (want to) hear mum’s whistle-language which called me back! 😉 When she arrived I just swallowed the last part of the fish! She did put me on the leash immediatly! Mum was so surprised she forgot to take a picture of the other fishes!!
And off we went, away from the fishes, in the direction of Bray-Dunes. On the way back, she smelled the fish in time and she said: no more sushi-restaurant-visit for you Kita and did put me on the leash for a while, untill we came at other interesting things… 😉 Sometimes she is quit stubborn and clever, my mum! 😦

Anyway, we visited lots of things, you can see them in the pictures! We walked 8 kilometers (for the foreigh friends: 5 miles). that’s a lot for my mum and she says I did the distance three times by running all the time… That’s why I was exhausted! 😉

Remember? When it was very hot in july, mum and dad took us to the seaside to cool down! Last sunday we went again! Not to cool down, no, because it’s the end of the holidays we want to “celebrate” with a fun day!

And it was fun!! Since mum knows I know exactly where I can do which naughty things (she finally noticed I’m smart!)… well, it was fun! Little explanation: at holidaymum’s place I surf on the counter, I jump on the couch, I go in the bedroom… But I don’t do all these things at home.

So, I may not dig in the dogpark, not allowed… and when the other dogs don’t dig, I don’t dig… When the others do, on the contrary, well I … mum yells!!!!

So mum decided that I could dig on the beach! Yihaaaaaa!!!! And I did, leash or no leash! 😉 I surely forgot the annoying thing! And mum? She waited patiently and filmed… 😉 Nice pics too!
Afterwards, in the car… well, I slept the whole way back! 🙂

Okay, my grandpa Lennox and me were very pleased we went to the seaside to cool down some time ago, during the hot days here in Antwerp! But we love the beach even more in winter!

What do you ask? Why? I’ll explain it very clearly to you! In summer, dogs are not allowed on certain parts of the beach. That’s normal: too many humans, too many human kids playing, it’s full over there. No place for playing and running dogs!
The happy news: some parts of the beach are for dogs and humans (the mums and dads, 🙂 ).

The bad news: in summertime, dogs must always be on the leash, also on “their” beach! In wintertime we may of the leash on those parts of the beach.
My mum had a very good idea: she bought me a very long leash! That’s a special thing! Never saw that before! Listen to this: when I run, it’s getting longer, when I don’t run it’s short… However: I don’t like it that much! 😦

Mum filmed me, and the leash, on the beach! Don’t like the leash! Only when I found the ball, I completely forgot I was on the leash! You see that on the movie! 😉 The movie moves! 😉 Because I was pulling without knowing! hahahahaha

In Antwerp the temperature is high… 32°C and more! Too high for grandpa Lennox and my mum! And for me too! So dad takes us all somewhere to cool down… We go there in the car! 🙂

My grandpa Lennox and I, we like that place, oh yes! 🙂 My mum and dad too! 🙂 Can you see on the pictures where we were?

Maybe I should give you a tip! Somewhere in my blog you can find it! 🙂 And the statue you see far away? Well, he’s an ancestor of the people they are talking about today, especially today: the 21st of july 2013! And maybe I can tell you that place is in Belgium… 🙂

Now we are home and I can show the pictures my mum made!

Waar gaan we naartoe? Naar zee? En mijn huisje mee? Oei, zee?! Dat bewegend water? Opa Lennox, we gaan naar zee! Naar al dat water dat aan komt rollen! Wat zeg je? Leuk? Niet bang van zijn? Ging jij daar in je jonge jaren in zwemmen? Cool!… Euh, ikke toch maar niet, denk ik!

We zijn er! Vrouwtje, je weet toch dat ik een beetje bang ben, hé, van dat water? Maar kijk nu toch eens, zoveel zand! Het water is ver weg! Hoera! Dan kunnen we hollen. Ja, toch, vrouwtje?

Wat zegt ze? Denkt ze dat ik eindelijk oud genoeg en getraind genoeg ben om te mogen los lopen op het strand? Goed geoefend in Frankrijk? Volgens het bord mag het hier… als we maar de goede kant uitgaan!

Kita, zit! En vrij!

Yes! Lopen maar en rennen en hollen. Maar ik kijk flink naar het vrouwtje af en toe, moet haar de weg wijzen, hé, dan loopt ze niet verloren… Als ik heel ver ben, dan roept ze met de fluitjestaal! Snel, snel… sneller dan die wind hier! Die blaast wel in mijn oren. Snel naar mijn vrouwtje! Zie je wel?! Stukje gedroogde kip! 😉

En nu in het water? We oefenen hard, mijn vrouwtje en ik! Ik ben nu niet meer bang van de zee, ik loop er zelfs in en uit! Flink van mij. Nu ja, ik ben nu een echte airedale-lady en die is niet bang van de zee! 😉 Zie je dat, opa lennox: ik zwem ook in de zee!

Flinke  Kita! Flinke meid!

Vergeet de fans niet, hé vrouwtje, veel plikplokken! 😉 De beste plaatjes komen laatst! En de film!! 😉