Elementary my dear Watson!

Thursday 13th September 2012.

Bradley here!. It's about time I did another blog from the dog's perspective as I feel I have been conned again!. Since my last traumatic experience in that dangling box on a wire they called a cable car filled with funny people walking on planks of wood, I have to say that I have not seen or been near another one since!. Fine by me as anything that wobbles like that beneath me sends me into a spin and I begin to pant rather a lot. Wimp I know, but I like to be on terrafirma and Mum & Dad know that really.

The country we are in at the moment has lots of chocolate which I get to taste every so often but also it has really posh poo bins which come complete with different coloured plastic bags, currently orange, with which to collect my 'deposits'. Mum & Dad keep stuffing many of these bags into their pockets in real glee that they are free!. 

Today off we went for another serious walk (I know this as I wear my special harness) and passed a few of those dangly box on a wire things. We soon headed towards a very high hill, I think the humans call them mountains. This one was particularly big and I could see what looked like a railway line leading from this building. Impossible I thought how can a train stick to that. We got closerer and closerer and suddenly this open air box with several people in it came down and stopped in this building we were heading towards. Blimey I thought, someone is daft enough to travel in that!.. Oh no!.. I heard Dad say "have you got the tickets"? and the last time he said that we ended up in that other dangly thing. But this time where were the wires?. I know I had to be brave as I had the feeling I was about to have another of these out of doggy experiences that caused me to tremble and shake uncontrollably. 

Sure enough I was herded into a seating area which had seats above and below me, I heard someone call it a Funny peculiar Railway (or something like that) but it wasn't very funny at that moment!. This whole contraption was at an angle of about 45 degrees and no way was it going to move, surely!. We sat there lovely and quiet for some time and the nice people behind stroked me, did I look that nervous!.. this is OK so far I thought!. Suddenly a bell sounded and a lady locked us all in before the whole contraption moved…upwards!… OH NO!, here we go again, why is it always upwards?, can't we just go downwards once in a while!. 

I jumped on Dad's lap to show how brave I was.. wrong thing to do!…. By this time we were several hundreds of feet up and looking over the side made me feel dizzy. I am starting to shake….'Dad can we stop and get off please'?. I also thought what in heaven's name was driving this thing, it had no engine and without any introduction we met another funny peculiar railway thing coming down the other way. I heard Dad say 'half way up' and looked at me doing a jelly impression before putting me down on the floor. The whole thing suddenly stopped and I was straining at the lead pointing at that door ready for off as soon as the lady opened it. On stepping out of the carriage I was stupid enough to look down instead of up realising just how far we were up and at that point I lost it completely, whimpering and squeaking like a muppet, literally crawling on all fours as low to the floor as I could before Dad & Mum took me to a nearby seat and I regained my composure. 

Then the weirdest thing, by this massive waterfall I saw Mum dressed like Sherlock Holmes half way up a mountain. Apparently we had arrived at a falls where Sherlock & Moriarty fell to their death. 

There is always good at the end and we then headed off into the woods where I was treated to a lovely 4 mile walk slowly back down the mountain with all four paws firmly affixed to the ground. 

What next I ask?. On the whole I am having a fantastic time but not as many doggy friends to meet in this country. Instead there are these massive cows with huge bells around their necks that come running up to me thinking I am a long lost relative, I'm afraid I have to run off and ignore them as they are so ugly!.

I was running around in the snow today, had a whale of a time before ending up beside another lake tonight… not a cable car or funny peculiar railway in sight, thank goodness!.

Lots of licks to everyone!