Hiking tour on August 2nd, 2014
For the ninth
time we invited owners of House-Barrett dogs to join us on a hiking
tour
Last year in August Hundemama together
with her sister Rita went on a seven day horseback ride on the so called
"Nibelungensteig", which is located in the nice country of
the Odenwald. Hundemama liked the landscape so much, that she would
like to hike with the House-Barrett-owners on part of this "Steig".
In spring she started to prepare this
tour and together with her partner she visited some guesthouses in
this area and found three nice ones.
Unfortunately the weather was not so
nice for our last years hike. This year House-Barrett hikers had dream
weather, all the anticipants were in a good mood, the owners of the
guesthouses were such friendly people and good German food was served.
It could not have been better. Quite a few new friendships took place.
The latest entries in our guestbook
let us know, how much everyone enjoyed this hike. We had families come
from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and also our friend Demetris from
the United States joined us. Some families stayed the whole weekend
and made a short vacation out of this event. Our oldest participant,
who walked with us, the second part of the hike, just turned 80 years
old. Heads up to this Lady!!!
Hundemama and Arthur will again enjoy
the preperation of next years hike. This will be our 10th annual hike.
A two day seminar will be held and we not only will hike , we also
will think of something special to do on that 10th hiking day. We hope,
that new families will join us for the next years hike, especially
we hope for more families to join from the USA and Canada. Since we
have quite a few puppy owners in the United States and Canada. Make
out of that event a short vacation to Europe. If anyone is interested
and has questions, just send us an Email.
At this time we like to let everyone
know, that the next years hike will be either at the end of August
or beginning of September. The exact date will be announced at the
beginning of 2015.
Just like every year a lots of pictures
were taken. We will start today with the first ones, more will follow
in the next days.
We wish everybody
the very best for the future
Haus-Barrett
Team |
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Our annual hike usually starts |
on Friday with a dinner at Josef`s Pizzeria |
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Gino came with Hundemam |
This is how to start a nice weekend! |
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On time at 9 AM the next morning, |
the hikers met |
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After Arthur took their orders for lunch and dinner |
and forwarded to the owners of the guesthouses, |
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the hike started |
First a short walk uphill |
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It did not take long and we were looking at such a
beautiful landscape |
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Time to rest a little |
and chat; Rainbow with his owners |
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A few more minutes of rest, then the hike contiuned |
It did not take long and the dogs found some water |
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Some just jumped into the water |
Hundemama with Orca. This time she took Orca, Nex and
Nixe along, because Tyson and Gino had to stay at home. They need to
save their energy for upcoming events. More about these events in the
next days and weeks! |
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Kaspar, a son of Hera and Buddy |
Ilvy, a daughter of Orca and Nex vom Kuckucksland |
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Demetris with his Leonidas |
Just waiting for the others, up front Nixe |
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Shadow-Knight, a son of Olympia and Yakko, joined us
for the first time. He is still a young 8 months old male |
Beverly, a daughter of Funny and Buddy, together with
Faisha, a daughter of Hera and Buddy |
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After three hours walking and resting reaching the
lunch destination |
up front to the left, Tiger, a son of "Tyson" and "Olympia" |
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Here are some group pictures, which were taken before
lunch! |
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What a nice group! |
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Everyone enjoyed this place! |
The service was excellent! |
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and they had such good food! |
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Barretts while resting |
As you can see, |
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they enjoyed |
this 1 1/2 hours lunch time |
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Again Buddy progeny |
We can always tell on the dark mask |
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Rainbow, a son of Orca and Tyson, just looks like his
Dad "Tyson". He has the same face! |
from right to left: Nex vom Kuckucksland, his sister
Nixe and Orca |
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All rested, the second part of the hike starts! |
Arriving in Miltenberg, a beautiful little town in
the Odenwald |
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Right in front of the "Rathaus" they had
water coming out |
of the ground |
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The Barretts wanted to play with it, jumping at it,
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just having a good time |
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a lot of tourists were watching, not only watching,
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did make a lot of pictures of our Barretts. It is not
comon to see 25 to 30 dogs at once |
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Very nice market place of Miltenberg |
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Hiking through the old down |
up front in the middle Selina with her Flash and Leonidas |
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Just enjoying the nice houses |
and narrow streets |
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Just out of town |
we reached our last destination |
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A small Biergarten, where we had ice coffee |
or just something cold to drink |
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Hundemama with Orca; Selina in the back |
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The time had come |
to walk over to the Bahnhof, |
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because we had to take the train |
back to Amorbach, where we left the cars that morning |
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One last group picture, before this hike unfortunately
came to an end |
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A few more minutes |
to walk until we reach the train station |
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Bruni, our family friend, joins us every year! |
Up front Beverly, to the left Tiger and to the right
Orca and Nex |
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Waiting for the train to arrive |
For the first time Rainbow together with his owners
joined. We are sure, that they will be with us again next year. They
liked it very much. They came all the way from Hannover |
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One last group pictures |
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Of course Barretts behave during the train ride |
It took us 15 minutes to ride back |
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Together we drove to a very nice small hotel, |
where we had dinner! |
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Some families stayed at this hotel over the weekend!
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Another nice day came to an end. But we are sure,
that there will be another one next year! |