Remember when I arrived back home after driving 12h through France and then taking the ferry from Cherbourg to Rosslare, exhausted, happy, grateful and SO PROUD of my girls?  As so many of you fellow dog lovers were sending me DMs asking about what it’s like to travel by sea with a dog, I added a question box to my stories.  So here we go.  My favourite crossing is the Cherbourg - Rosslare route with Stena Line (Stena Horizon). I’ve only travelled with Stena Line’s Stena Horizon on that route so far but as I found out there’s (thanks to Brexit) a new ferry with pet friendly cab ..read more

What’s the best way to travel to Ireland with my dog? I get this question very often, so I guess it was time to write it all down in a blog post for you. And it is a good question for sure, because I wouldn’t want to travel anywhere without Neala, my Border Collie (bestest girl!), and I guess you feel the same about your dog (dog lovers, can I get an amen?).  My own dog-travel journey started in 2018, when I started travelling more frequently between Ireland and Germany again. I got Neala in 2016, the year my Mum passed away, and although I missed Ireland a lot, I just wasn’t ready yet to ..read more

I’m not going to make it look nicer than it is: finding a good AND dog-friendly airbnb or hotel in Ireland can be so damn hard. Disappointing. Trial and error. Like opening the cookie jar after a long and exhausting day and realising someone else has had the last cookie already. You get it? There have been ups and downs over the past years but I can tell you there are some pretty awesome gems out there. As I’m often asked for recommendations when it comes to airbnbs and pet-friendly hotels, I thought it would be nice for you to have a blog post where I collect ALL the links. So here we go ..read more