As Animalcouriers headed through Italy from Ancona towards Genoa, we found ourselves passing lots of heavy snow deposits. Concerned at the amount of snow around, we decided to keep going until we’d got past it all to avoid any holdups. So it was into the wee small hours when we reached the southern French city of Nice, and found our hotel next to the airport. The hotel kindly ‘impounded’ our van in their secure staff car park while we and our passengers got some well deserved rest.
We woke to a cool but beautiful morning and, once walks and breakfasts were done, we went to meet Graham in Nice. His fantastically named cat Limpet has joined us for his journey to Elgin in Scotland, where Graham’s brother is looking forward to welcoming him.
From Nice we continued west to the Narbonne area where we spent the night with friends. This morning saw us in Toulouse where we collected handsome Dalmation Snoopy and his feline companions Billy and Charlie. These three firm friends are relocating to Bristol, where their owners’ work with Airbus has taken them.
Snowy scenes in Italy persuaded us to keep motoring
View over Nice airport yesterday morning
Graham brings us Limpet
Limpet having a good look around
Poppi and Philomena are taking travelling in their stride
Narla is such an affectionate, fubsy cat — a female ginger which is quite a rarity
We stopped at the Eco’park in Mougins where we spent a very pleasant time walking the dogs. Robbie seemed particularly taken with the congenial surroundings.
Silva is a soft, bouncy and cuddly girl
Daisy loves to feel the grass between her toes
Pretty Minou is a very dainty girl
Now that Louis has had a chance to get used to us, he’s keen to show us how much he likes playing
Peabody, know by his family as ‘Boy’, is another very playful character. In his case, it’s mainly footie with his water bowl. We can hear banging and thumping as he scores heroic goals!
Lady having the sort of bad hair day that Cockers sometimes do
Lady was a little nervous out walking on the first day, but now it’s all ‘come on, Fidel, I’ll show you the way!’
And Fidel is happy to oblige
Billie checking us out on our arrival in Toulouse
Snoopy with Nic, who handed him and the cats to us on behalf of Alison
Snoopy shows us his best camera pose
Charlie is a very chilled-out girl who settled in like a pro
Nice post 😉
Thanks! We have some great passengers on this trip.
What a great trip you’ve all been having, Malta, Italy, the French Riviera – fabulous photos – safe journey ! 🙂
That’s a lot if snow safe travels
Luckily couriers J&M managed to out run the worst of it.
So many handsome faces.
A very photogenic group.
I thought about you on my own site, when I did my post today. You should check it out. 🙂
http://orples.net/orples-2/the-orples-record-another-beautiful-richmond-mural/
What wonderful murals – need to find that artist!
WOW!! That’s quite a pile of animals on this run! Everyone looks happy though….that’s a good sign!
Pam
They are all lovely and keeping couriers J&M well entertained 😉
Narla could be related with Sammy :o) and Daisy could be a cousin of Doc… Have a safe rip, the roads can be sneaky ….
Wouldn’t Narla & Sammy be quite the pair! Yes, Doc and Daisy would make another great couple too!
Wonderful!!!
Yup – a fine group of travellers!
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Good idea to keep going with all that snow, excellent to hear that it didn’t hold up the journey for you and your charges 🙂
I didn’t know that Ginger cats were usually Toms… so I learned something from this post too 🙂
We were once holed up at a hotel for five days by the snow and don’t ever want that to happen again 🙁
Limpet! What a wonderful name! I was so curious as to what animal might have that moniker. It suits!
We think Limpet might be the best name yet – have to think about that as a competition…
I’m with you on that one, best name ever. Even before I read that you liked it so much!
You are working hard on this trip.
After once getting caught for five days by the snow, we never want that to happen again.
Laughing about the expression on Lady’s face when she is out with Fidel. Is that Tramp sneaking up and sniffing behind Lady? 🙂
Ha, you spotted that ‘follower’! Such a rude hanger on 😉
Isn’t that what we call a photo-bomb. (grin)
It certainly is 😀
Gorgeous travellers 🙂 and the snow looks so pretty 🙂 and of course you had us a female Ginger 🙂 loves Bev xx
We aren’t snow lovers while on the road, however pretty it looks 😀
No I wouldn’t be either! only slid in snow once and that was enough 🙂
Charlie’s owners caught you out too – we assumed she was a boy from the name 😉
Such great pictures. We are covered in snow here, I never really got to experience Italian snow since I was right in the center of Rome. So pretty to see, just not always fun to deal with 🙂
We’ve experienced snow in Italy rather too often 😉
Peabody has a wonderful front assembly. Great shoulders, too. Hope he does well at Crufts! British dog shows are much more competitive than ours.
Fubsy. My new favorite word.
Everything about Peabody is rather special, including his personality. We too wish him huge luck at Crufts… It is a rather seriously competitive event! Fubsy is one of our all time favourite words even if spell check doesn’t believe it exists 😉
Is it my imagination, or do you seem to have larger groups for your travels these days? I kept thinking, how do they possiblly keep up with everyone? I guess maybe they come and go very quickly, but it seems an awesome responsibility! I LOVE these pictures and the souls I see in their eyes…amazing. Thanks so much for the stories…safe travels in the snow! 🙂
You are indeed right – the size of our vans just gets bigger and bigger 😉 There is however a limit to how many animals two couriers can cope with so the passenger list is always kept under control. So glad you enjoy the stories!
yet another fine collection of dogs and cats. Charlie and Silva stole my heart this time — can you tell I’m partial to black and white pets?
Everyone is allowed their favourites!
What a bunch of beauties!
ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!
Aren’t they all!
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How do the dogs and cats get along? Do they seem to like each other?
We keep them segregated so the poor cats get a bit of peace and quiet 😉
Such a wonderful collection of earth angels – thank you for sharing the cocker spaniel pics! Miss ours every day.
You must indeed miss Sam but there’s someone else coming to shatter your peace now 😉
ROFL!!! Only a couple more days…I told my husband omg I’m getting cold feet, can we do it?! He of course reassured me, “we are committed now” (our faces are in the tea towels now kind of thing) but you know…it’s going to be totally worth it. As soon as I see his little face all my reservations will evaporate.
It’ll take a second to fall in love!
That’s a lot of lovely passengers this trip. I expect the dogs would have enjoyed a quick game in the snow, but I’m sure the cats were pleased you kept moving!
Yes, we suspect you’re right Clowie – we just didn’t dare stop in the snow in case we got stuck 🙁
That’s a lot of snow in Italy…brrr…must be colder than here. We enjoyed all the cute faces of the passengers 🙂 Pawkisses for a safe journey 🙂 <3
Yes, it probably is a lot colder than with you, especially up north and in the mountains. Glad you don’t have snow LB 😉
What gorgeous pictures of everyone! Love the diversity of this group!
Variety is the spice of life!
How can you not get so attached to these furry babies?! ♡