The Labraventures of Carbón, Spanish (ex-) foster dog extraordinaire

[Beanwood]

@Emily_Babbelhund and @snowbunny - thank you for the GoPro tips! Will have a go later today. Hoping I can watch them later on our giant TV screen, chuckling like mad (in between yelling "off with his head!" ) eating posh chocs, drinking champagne and working hard at keeping my crown straight (Benson keeps knocking it when cleaning my ears)

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

... and stroking her monstrously large cat.

Well, we can all verify that she has one of those. All hail Remy, the COUS (Cat of Unusual Size)!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

There's no hope for me. Should have worked all day, instead I did this:

 

[Selina27]

 

[Boogie]

It’s great @Emily_Babbelhund

 

[Anne123]

I couldn't watch this! I thought you were going to have a collision....Not used to driving the left side of the road and so fast forwarded I kept my eyes closed....!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

I couldn't watch this! I thought you were going to have a collision....Not used to driving the left side of the road and so fast forwarded I kept my eyes closed....!

Oops, well that's good feedback as this was my first 'driving' video edit. Maybe more slower sections needed!

 

[HAH]

That was brilliant! I loved the twiddly music and the zooming through Macroom

 

[kateincornwall]

Fab , really enjoyed your trip x

 

[Beanwood]

Fabulous! Although it was bit freaky when you first sped the video up!

 

[Jacqui-S]

Loved it.
The moody skies.
All the coloured houses!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Fabulous! Although it was bit freaky when you first sped the video up!

I did try to warn you in the text. Everyone knows I drive REALLY slowly, so I had to speed it up to fit a 3,5 hour drive into five minutes.

All the coloured houses!

I LOVE the colours of the houses here.

 

[Rosie]

There's no hope for me. Should have worked all day, instead I did this

Time well spent, if you ask me.

 

[Natalie]

That's a great video, compliments to the driver

Nosy question, you mentioned a stop for provisions, but do you carry food essentials around with you, like salt, pepper, pasta, oil, emergency tins of soup or beans?

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Nosy question, you mentioned a stop for provisions, but do you carry food essentials around with you, like salt, pepper, pasta, oil, emergency tins of soup or beans?

In this case a 'stop for provisions' was swinging by Lidl.

I do carry stuff with me, though. I have a bag that I call my "kitchen". It has all sorts of useful stuff like salt, pepper, Tabasco, scissors, knife, bowl and colander (for cooking Carbon's veggies), lighter, plastic bags, tea towels, foil, kitchen roll, toilet roll, cleaning sponges, and in general all sorts of important stuff (I think there's even some bear spray in there). Also depending on the day or trip it may have oil, soup or other stuff stashed in it.

I also have a bag with Carbon's emergency food: veggie-only kibble, regular kibble, assorted fish in tins...that kind of thing. I have to have either veggies or veggie-only kibble to cut the regular kibble because Carbon needs less than 20% protein, which means I can't use regular kibble only even on a 'no cook' night.

So the provisions for a few nights are frozen veggies, apples/bananas, sweet potato, fish (frozen and canned) and eggs for Carbon. Then something completely nutritionally bereft for me.

 

[Granca]

Great video! Where’s all the traffic? There seemed to be quite a few parked cars, you didn’t seem to pass or follow many other vehicles.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Great video! Where’s all the traffic? There seemed to be quite a few parked cars, you didn’t seem to pass or follow many other vehicles.

Ahhh...that's actually a pretty traffic-intense drive for rural Ireland as I took the main routes vs. my usual 'beauty route' through Moll's Gap. The pluses of an island with more sheep than people! And even then most people are concentrated in Dublin and the other (few) major cities. Out on west coast, it's pretty sparse. It's a huge difference between the UK and Ireland.

 

[Lisa]

Fabulous!

 

[Selina27]

Where’s all the traffic?

It's Ireland!!!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

It's Ireland!!!

The first "Labratour" in the UK, I couldn't believe the amount of traffic in England. I'd spent a lot of time in the UK many years ago, but mainly in London and without a car. I'd just assumed that once you got into the countryside, it would be like Ireland or pretty much anyplace else (Germany, Italy, Spain): out of the city, out of the traffic. No way. England is the only place I've been where you can be sitting in traffic while looking out on a field with cows! You think, "Where did all these people come from in the middle of no where?"

Early on I talked to my friend Cian in Ireland and told him my astonishment. "I thought it would be like Ireland," I said. "What?" he answered, "You thought a country with 65 million people would have the same amount of traffic as a country with 6 million people?" Oops, I guess when you put it like that...!

So yes, Ireland = more sheep than people. England = more cars than roads. Not sure about Wales and Scotland as I've not been there enough to make a car/road ratio judgement. I did a road trip around Scotland 20 years ago and it was definitely quiet outside the cities, but that was a long time ago.