10/11/2026
🐾 Golden Paws November Adventures — A Little Catch-Up From the Road! 🐾
First of all, apologies for the lack of updates over the last few days. It's been a bit of a stressful time for us, to say the least!
As many of you will know from our last update, we were making our way through France when, between Le Mans and Rouen, we suffered a major problem with the engine in the van. We had a large knocking noise and a loss of power, which was absolutely devastating — particularly after the amount of work and money that has been spent on the van over the last few months.
Thankfully, we had our contingency plans in place and, with the help of some amazing people in France, our insurance company and a local rental company, we managed to get a replacement vehicle. We transferred everything over and got straight back on the road.
Most importantly, all of the Woofers were looked after and everybody was safely delivered to their homes in the UK. 🐶❤️
While all of this has been going on, we've been speaking directly with each of our clients to keep them updated, which is why the social media updates have taken a bit of a back seat. Sometimes, you simply have to concentrate on dealing with what's in front of you!
After getting everybody safely dropped off, we then had to make arrangements to continue the trip and get everyone booked in for their journey back from the UK to Spain.
And that's where we are now! 🚐💨
We started our UK collections yesterday up in Edinburgh, where we collected Rocky. From there, we headed south to collect Walter in Lytham, Odin in Sandbach, and Dilly the cat in Stoke-on-Trent. 🐶🐶🐶🐱
We're now making our way across to Aylsham, where we'll continue our collections before heading south and eventually making our way back towards Spain.
It's certainly been a stressful couple of days, but as they say, these things are sent to test us! And that's exactly why we have contingency plans in place. Those plans have been activated, and we'll continue to work our way through this trip and, most importantly, get everybody safely home to Spain. 🇬🇧➡️🇪🇸🐾
As for our own van, that's another story still to unfold. We're now waiting for it to be repatriated back to Spain, which could take around two weeks, before we can get it properly assessed. The initial diagnosis is that the problem could potentially be either the conrod or the crankshaft.
Once we're back in Spain and this trip is safely completed, we'll sit down, go through all the information we've got and work out exactly what happens next.
But for now, there's only one focus...
Carry on with the November Adventures and get every single one of our furbabies home safe and sound! ❤️🐾
We'll keep you posted as we continue the journey.
Speak soon, guys!
