Messy Dog Life
& Dog-Friendly Days Out

A Norman cathedral, a living history museum covering 350 acres and a solid spread of confirmed indoor dog-friendly cafés and pubs. Durham quietly over-delivers on a weekend away with a dog.

A Victorian spa town with a moor behind it, a heritage railway on the doorstep and a compact centre full of shops and pubs where dogs are actually welcome inside. Ilkley earns a proper weekend.

A medieval castle, a canal basin and enough dog-welcoming cafés and pubs between the two to fill a proper weekend. Here's how to do Skipton with a dog.

I just cannot make up my mind. I have always had girls. Mostly because, growing up, we had Max, a chocolate brown miniature poodle with a very annoying habit of proudly displaying his ‘lipstick’ most evenings. Girls have wonderful soft, lipstick-free tummies and, at least in my experience, are slightly less inclined to disappear over the horizon with selective hearing. So it has always been girls. The first was more happy accident than conscious decision. Ellie was a rescue p

A compact Yorkshire Dales town with a cobbled square, genuine indoor dog welcomes and Bolton Abbey on the doorstep. Here's how a dog-friendly weekend in Grassington actually fits together.

A Norman castle above the Swale, atmospheric abbey ruins and a market place lined with dog-friendly pubs and cafés. Richmond earns two nights without trying particularly hard.