To be honest? Not at all! We’re really lucky that Fiete is so relaxed when travelling and doesn’t get worked up about trips. On the one hand, we’ve trained him intensively from the very start, and on the other, he really does travel with us a lot. As soon as he sees that he’s definitely coming along (he checks this by lying down in the suitcase), everything’s fine with him.

Fiete is fed dry food, which is easy to transport. Depending on how long we’ll be out and about, we put the dry food in the Food Container of the Bento Set or the large Sacco Dog Food Bag.

We love South Tyrol, Bavaria and Austria. We also love Sylt in winter, because during the colder months dogs are allowed to run freely on almost all the beaches. Incidentally, these hotels are particularly dog-friendly: the Gutshofhotel Winkler Bräu in Bavaria, the Kaiserlodge in Tyrol and the Cyprianerhof in South Tyrol. The Six Senses Douro Valley in Portugal is so dog-friendly that it is even home to two stray dogs that wandered into the hotel a few years ago.

Thanks to our dog, we’ve learnt that you don’t have to travel far afield to see the beauty of the world. And for our blog, too, it turned out that nearby destinations have become much more interesting than long-haul trips.