My name is Fenda - I am a foxy Jack Russell

Hi I am Fenda

I share my home with Dylan, Scraggy and Banjo whom you may meet on Dylans page.

I want to tell you a bit about my adventure coming to Spain.

Before we set off me and my mistress went to visit Scraggy and his mistress at their home. We used to go to a cemetery to play and have fun running about chasing squirrels and trains and the dead leafs on the ground.  Sniffing and running and jumping all around.  

This is Scraggy's mistress.

this is me chasing after some noise I have heard.

This is me and Scraggy on a visit to a friends place in Bham, it had a lovely garden to play in.

Anyway, in August 2011 we set sail to come to Spain, very fine day, we arrived very early at the dockside so we had to take long walks around the port to find out more about where we were, It was ok the day was warm and dry and we had plenty of other dogs to sniff and chat with.

We boarded the boat - now I had spent a few days during the weeks before we left being taught how to wear a muzzle thing, not a pleasant experience, however I managed to behave myself as I was led through the crowd of dogs who were also on the boat in the kennels with me, so I was not alone.

I have never been on a boat before nor on any long journey.  I did not know what to expect.

Here is me on the boat leaving the harbour at Portsmouth going to Santander

This is the first time I have been on a ship and was not sure what to do.  I looked around at the other dogs and went for a walk along the deck to see the views of where we were leaving from.  All very interesting - not to me a dog - but am sure my owner must have felt something when we parted from the shores.  

Views from the Dog Deck on the PontHaven leaving Portsmouth

So many people coming and going the place was very busy.

Watching the last of the UK mainland in the distance.

First night on the boat the sunset - this was lovely.

Approaching Santander on a lovely day, no rain, nor winds.  Hazy sunshine as it was early in the morning.

All the views above of our arrival in the Santander Harbour.

Then we faced an 11 hour car journey down to the south coast of Spain, We went down the Extremadura which did not have any tolls on the roads, lots of little villages we passed by.  

We stopped overnight at a All Night Truck stop where we stayed until it started to get light then we set off again before it got too hot and then we stopped again for a while to rest and have a walk around in the sunshine - bit warm but was ok.

We finally arrived at our new home which was lovely as it was a cool house with marble floors which after being in the car for so many hours it was nice to feel the coolness on my body again.  

We arrived in early evening to our new home and in the evening we stood on the roof terrace and looked at the beautiful mountains.

I have over the years that I have been in Spain visited the hills behind a few times, enjoyed the freedom of running free chasing creepy crawlies and also spotted the odd rabbit.

We have even seen a live peacock which I was not allowed to chase.  

I have even come face to face with a snake - that was scary - never seen one before, I did get a bit too close to it and it hissed at me, but it did not bite me -  I am glad to say.

My life in Spain so far has been full of fun and adventure learning to mix with other dogs and getting to know their names and owners.  There is a great pack we walk with sometimes and also we have had a special friend who has now disappeared and we do not know where he has gone.  

I have had different friends come to stay and play with me in my home. 

I love to meet new pals all the time.

We used to go to the beach alot in the evenings I would swim in the lake at the beach but now I have not been there for a long time because there has now been a ban on dogs on the beach which is sad.

Ah well, at least I can run about on the river beds and play in the rivers when there is water in them in the spring.  Looking forward to that.

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