Travels with The Bobster - The Dog's Blog: November 2017

Friday 3 November 2017

The Bobster visits Helmsley, again

Here I am at the iconic ruins of Helmsley Castle

Dear reader, my apologies for the lack of blog posts recently. My laptop screen has been shattered and is still broken so it makes it very difficult to see what I am typing. I really must remind the human to get this sorted!! Anyway, I will have to persevere with things as they are so please excuse any typos. It is difficult for a dog to keep a blog in the first place (woof!)

Helmsley is a picturesque town in north Yorkshire and very dog-friendly. In fact, a human would almost feel lacking without a fur-friend as an accessory while strolling along its charming streets, eating in the local pubs and cafes or browsing the many gift shops.

We visited the town in October and the shops were geared towards Halloween.

But the town is always well dressed with an abundance of flowers on display and is really quite quaint.

This time on my morning walks I discovered a new shopping area, up an alleyway next to the Edinburgh Wool shop. The Pet shop is really great and has all sorts of goodies like Pawsecco (woof!) Yes Please!!! The Human got me a tartan bow-tie for my upcoming visit to Glasgow (more on that later)

We stayed at the Feversham Arms hotel and Spa, in the centre of town. Our room was a suite near the pool and had a lovely log burning fire, ready to light each night. Though the weather was quite mild, light it we did, as we lack the glow of a real fire at home and there's just something so wonderful and relaxing about it.

The Feversham Arms really makes us dogs feel welcome, they even had a statue of me to greet me on arrival. And I was welcome in the bar area to eat with the humans, and drink, and eat some more. The Hotel has a spa, and provides guests with Temple spa products in the hotel bathrooms. As you can see, there is an outdoor heated pool which people were enjoying in October. This photo was prior to my morning walk so no skinny-dipping for me. There wasn't anything provided for me during my stay here, no treats, no dog bowl, or blanket but then again, the human doesn't recall there being any extra charge. 4 🐾🐾🐾🐾 the staff on the other hand get my first ever 6 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 amazeballs!

Here are a bunch of photos of me looking cute outside the cute shops in the town, taken during those early morning walks while the rest of the town slept, mostly. The local deli, which sells VERY good cuts of locally sourced meat and produce opens really early, so the human treated me to some roast beef. Well, I was on holiday!