15-16th of July

15th of July : some show training in the backyard.

And my reward : driving the car of my 'sous-chef' Martin :-)

16th of July : Hunting / retrieving training of Filo, and Oro comes along to view the whole happening. One thing is for sure, Oro is steady to a gunshot and he looks interested at the work of other dogs, including his raone marone 'brother'.

That's the way....

And now some advice how to / not to...

It's al soo tiresome

The next weekend : WDS Paris

As Oro can't yet enter France, he's gonna spend the weekend at Niekske and Bernard, their two kids and their 4 weimaraner shorthair. Niekske is completely in love with Filo, and after one weekend Oro in the house, she's completely bracconized :-)

While Oro's fooling the weimaraners, Filo was with us in Paris to compete at the World Dog Show 2011. We met our finnish friends again, as a lot of foreign bracchi lovers. Filo got a 4 very good in open class dogs, a fine result considering his shape and the judge.

The BIG day

After a trip of 25 hours in the camper, he finally arrived in Belgium

Thanks Teija, Pirjo, Kaisa and Veijo for taking care of him during the trip.

I hope you all liked the belgian stay in Diest.

Finland, here we come

1th of July, we're finally visiting our new son in Finland. After a flight of a couple of hours, a nice trip through all the finnish green. For miles and miles nothing else but trees, fields of green, little and big lakes...so refreshing. Arrived at Urjalankÿla, the happy dogs announced our arrival, we even got a lick from a wet basset tongue :-)

It was such a nice stay in Urjalankylä with a superb host. We enjoyed the nice food, the lovely dogs, the silence, the nature, the nice finnish friends who visited, the therapy cabin....

Thank you Teija to let those two strangers from Belgium stay in your house, thanks to Mari and Tompa for your companionship and that of your lovely dogs. And also thanks to Tarja for giving us the chance to see Oro's beautiful brother Leone.

This won't be the last time we visit Finland !