Messy Dog Life
& Dog-Friendly Days Out

A relaxed dog-friendly weekend in Stratford-upon-Avon, with riverside wandering, Tudor history, dog-friendly attractions and plenty of welcoming cafés, pubs and shops.

A relaxed dog-friendly weekend in Louth, with Hubbard’s Hills, independent shops, cosy pubs, welcoming cafés and plenty of places where dogs are genuinely welcome inside.

Broadstairs is small, independent and genuinely dog-friendly indoors. Here's how to spend a weekend well — bay walks, micropubs, seafood and a Sunday park run before the drive home.

St Ives has been pulling people in for centuries — first for its pilchards, then its light. It turns out it's also quietly excellent for dogs, with indoor-welcoming venues and a museum that actually lets dogs through the door.

Steep lanes, Jurassic cliffs, a village built on a smuggling past and plenty of places your dog is genuinely welcome inside. Here's how to make a weekend of Robin Hood's Bay.

Southwold looks like it was designed for a dog-owner's weekend — and mostly it was. Here's how to make it work, built around Dunwich Heath and a harbour cluster worth lingering in.