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

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Aye carumba, was that ever a very long drive. 8 hours ! And now we are in an ugly apartment with a lumpy bed. Fingers crossed, amigos, that tomorrow is a leeetle cheerier.

Dios mio, that is a very green bathroom. I was almost put off my dinnner. Ja, ja, just keeeeeding. We Labradors are never put off our food !

 

[HAH]

Madre de dios, you and your heroic ML must be pooped, Señor! But at least you are now in fair Verona, where even the bathroom tiles shine to welcome your handsome Labrador feet
And tomorrow, Cortona! Maybe you will explore the Etruscan Academy Museum and soak up a little atmosphere, un poco de ambiente y delicias caídas, non? May the sun shine, the breezes play upon you, and you and ML have a fabulously easy, restorative day. Duerme bien, viajeros dulces y cansados!

 

[Cath]

Hope you slept better last night Emily

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Madre de dios, you and your heroic ML must be pooped, Señor! But at least you are now in fair Verona, where even the bathroom tiles shine to welcome your handsome Labrador feet
And tomorrow, Cortona! Maybe you will explore the Etruscan Academy Museum and soak up a little atmosphere, un poco de ambiente y delicias caídas, non? May the sun shine, the breezes play upon you, and you and ML have a fabulously easy, restorative day. Duerme bien, viajeros dulces y cansados!

YOU are the most poetic Señorita ever, and your Castellano is magnificent. I am in love.

Pues, we already knew that based on your sweet potato treats. Que rico! But now I think I may need to adopt you as my new ML. You are clearly superior to my old one.

I keeeed, I keeed. I have spent to long training the old one to give up now. But a Señor can dream, no?

Our place for the night was…interesting. However, we have a muy bonita view this morning and my breakfast was quite nice. There is hope!

 

[Stacia]

Madre de dios, you and your heroic ML must be pooped, Señor! But at least you are now in fair Verona, where even the bathroom tiles shine to welcome your handsome Labrador feet
And tomorrow, Cortona! Maybe you will explore the Etruscan Academy Museum and soak up a little atmosphere, un poco de ambiente y delicias caídas, non? May the sun shine, the breezes play upon you, and you and ML have a fabulously easy, restorative day. Duerme bien, viajeros dulces y cansados!

Could I have translation please I can guess a little, especially the last one

 

[HAH]

Could I have translation please I can guess a little, especially the last one

Of course Sonia:
Madre de dios is mother of God!
un poco de ambiente y delicias caídas means a little ambience/atmosphere and maybe some fallen delicacies;
And Duerme bien, viajeros dulces y cansados is Sleep well, sweet and tired travelers.
P.s. I speak no Spanish, this is all down to Google Translate

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Currently top modelling in Pienza!

 

[M.F.]

What a lucky dog you are Carbon. I’d be very happy to sub for you if you ever need a break, and I’ll accompany your ML. I would sooooo love to be doing all that traveling and visiting all those new places!!!!!!!! And you don’t need to do any organizing cos your ML does it all! What a dream life!

 

[Stacia]

Of course Sonia:
Madre de dios is mother of God!
un poco de ambiente y delicias caídas means a little ambience/atmosphere and maybe some fallen delicacies;
And Duerme bien, viajeros dulces y cansados is Sleep well, sweet and tired travelers.
P.s. I speak no Spanish, this is all down to Google Translate

I was so impressed with your Spanish Still clever to get it via Google Translate!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

And you don’t need to do any organizing cos your ML does it all!

ML here: You know, I’d like someone to do that for me too!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Weeee, what a day! We are in our leeeetle Airbnb near Cortona tonight after another big driving day. ML says it was so far down the motorway for only three days which is estupido, but I think it was a great plan because I got to meet so many nice people. Today I sat on the laps of two guapa ladies from Boston and cuddled with an entire family from Israel. I also overheard many comments about dashing I looked in my bandana. So I would not have missed our frivolous Tuscan side trip for nada.

Claro que sí it is easy for ME to time travel in the TARDIS: I simply have a nice siesta while ML swears at other drivers in various languages and bites all her fingernails off. It is muy entertaining, de verdad.

Some more from today:

A biiiiig new dog friend in Montepulciano


A leeeetle door just my size in Pienza


Me entrancing the locals in Pienza

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

A few more from today before I go off to siesta land. Tomorrow is Gubbio and Cortina. Non vedo l’ora di andare! That is keep @HAH on her toes with the Google Translate.

 

[HAH]

Oh Carboncito, your gentlemanly paws will be terriblemente cansado after all that walking tomorrow, ¿no lo crees? You must make sure you rest your beautiful head tonight and fill it with sleep so you have all the energy for exploring tomorrow. The Cattedrale dei Santi Mariano e Giacomo looks particularly lovely, and Gubbio is very dog friendly!
What excellent adventures you have awaiting you. Duerme bien, dulce príncipe (and your simplemente gloriosa ML )

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

The Cattedrale dei Santi Mariano e Giacomo looks particularly lovely, and Gubbio is very dog friendly!
What excellent adventures you have awaiting you

Grazie mille! We are going out now to Gubbio. I have never been before, but it was one of my glorious assistant dog forefather Brogan’s favorite spots and ML can confirm that it is indeed very dog-friendly.

We are both feeling a leeetle better today. It may seem odd that sometimes we feel tired or low when we are so very lucky to be able to travel like we do. But sometimes, sabes, your feet just feel tired and you miss your stuffies and your own pillows. That is what happened yesterday.

Today however, Señor Carbón is large and in charge (or in my case petite and in charge) and I say “Oggi sarà molto bello!”, today will be a good day! Andiamo, vamos!

 

[Stacia]

I so love your travels and so in awe of ML driving all that way. You must write that book!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

She photobombed me! Pfft!

 

[Joy]

I'm sure all the driving must be draining @Emily_Babbelhund . I drove back from Somerset on Sunday (about 6 hours - awful rain and heavy traffic) and yesterday I just lay around watching rubbish TV!

 

[Jacqui-S]

She photobombed me! Pfft!

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La tua ML è molto bella Signor Carbòn.

 

[Stacia]

You both look so beautiful on the steps xx

 

[Boogie]

You both look fabulous

Who took the photo?