I\u2019m not talking about the holiday, that\u2019s great so far, give or take the odd small dog that I may be disliked and barked at quite a lot. Of course that would have been more forgivable if we hadn\u2019t been sitting in a restaurant trying to have a quiet drink at the time. Anyway, the swizz is the dongle we got to travel with. Does it work? No it does not. We have in theory activated it so it will have taken out money but it won\u2019t give us an internet signal in exchange. My Mistress remembered back to a time when no one even thought about those things, but of course that\u2019s not the age I\u2019ve grown up in so I threw a paddy until she agreed to pay for me to use a wireless connection just while we were moored in the town. We\u2019re at Ypres. The humans went to the museum, except my Mistress who stayed with us, which we appreciated. Ari said he was too young to go round the museum and my Mistress has been round before and agreed that to really understand it he was probably a little young. Today we are motoring back to the where we started, as the canal to Ypres goes nowhere else and we want to go round to Bruges and Gent. I want to show Ari some of the places I used to visit when I was his age. At least here we managed to moor side on and quite close to the side so he was much more able to get on and off. I\u2019ve totally got the hang of it and am doing quite well, give or take feeling the need to defend my territory.<\/p>\n
Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/p>\n
You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"