Heading across the bridges in Denmark towards Copenhagen
Tor moving in the Champion Class
The critique is dictated as the Judge goes over the dog.....
and then completed as the dog is stood.
Some wonderful views over the Swedish Coutryside....
Kristina had taken us here and Rhiannon was getting something pointed out.
Swedish towns are SO pretty.
A young small bull elk, so Eva and Kristina informed us!
We had to go round to see the bull again..
Our campsite in the South.
The dogs were comfortable in our large travelling cage!
the campsite was close to the lake.
A beautiful place to swim ..
We hired a kayak for a day and went out on the lake.
Ian ready to go out on the lake with Rhiannon.
Trogen did get to be shown at Ronneby.
He was given a 1st prize.
The judge saying hello ..
He was a little unsure - it was his first time in the ring!
Tor took it all in his stride.
Tarka flying around the ring
She was also given a 1st prize and also an Honour prize !!
The dogs with their ribbons they won.
More views of the lakes around the campsite.
Our last view of the lakes before heading home....
Packed up and ready to leave Sweden :-(
Heading over the Öresund out of Sweden.
Back towards Denmark and home.
We stayed in Denmark for a night either way.
Sunset in the Netherlands
We did do one serious visit in the Netherlands
We stayed in the Netherlands with the Rozema's
We tried to stay off the main roads for the day journey between the Netherlands to Denmark - we thought we would see more ! It was novel to see signs on the canals to aid the water traffic.
The said water traffic had right of way here!
I said to Eva that we wanted to see some Elk. She laughed, they are everywhere - but we had to go on an Elk Safari to get up close to photograph them AND Eva and Kristina were just as keen to come too !!!
Kristina was kind enough to give us some Elk meat - here we are tucking into some. Not just any meat - this elk had been tracked by Jippi - Kristinas full Champion clumber !!
- the remainder was cooked in Eva's pot for hours and made a delicious casserole - with juniper berries.
Now the campfire isn't just to keep warm - it kept the mosquitoes at bay too.
He was also awarded a 1st prize and placed 3rd in the class. Sounds confusing - but each dog is graded , then placed in the class.
On our way home we found a local beach to swim the dogs - the sea was the Baltic, sounds very strange when you have lived all yourlife by the Atlantic !! Here is Tor..
By the way - due to the narrow straits into the Baltic, there are very little tides.
Camp Westerbork a transit camp: Each single stone represents a single person that had stayed at Westerbork and died in Nazi concentration camps.At the former roll call site 102,000 stones have been placed, they symbolize the number of deportees who did not return.
The broken rails of the former track which was used to transport people to and from the camp. Between July 1942 and September 1944 93 trains left this spot. Anne Frank and her family were put on the first of the three last trains...
They own Lizzie - Tarka and Trogen's sister.
