City Guides

Comprehensive dog friendly city guides, and articles on travelling with your dog, wherever you are going. Roch Society members can request custom city guides on demand, and we will compile them for you!

An autumn tree in an open grassy field at Ashton Court Estate, Bristol, under a blue sky
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Bristol, England

A harbour city with an 850 acre deer park estate on one side of the gorge, woodland on the other and harbourside pubs that welcome dogs. Where to eat, drink, walk and stay with a dog in Bristol.

The Palladian Bridge and lake at Prior Park, with a path across the hillside and Bath's terraces beyond
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Bath, England

A Georgian city ringed by National Trust hills, a canal towpath through Jane Austen's pleasure gardens and pubs that keep a fire lit for muddy paws. Where to eat, drink, walk and stay with a dog in Bath.

A wide paved riverside path in Nakanoshima Park, Osaka, with autumn trees and the red brick Central Public Hall
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Osaka, Japan

Riverside lawns on Nakanoshima, a four kilometre loop around Osaka Castle, terrace tables by the water and a hotel where your dog joins you in the bar. Where to eat, walk and stay with a dog in Osaka.

Lawns, paths and flowering silk floss trees in the Jardí del Túria, Valencia, with the blue tiled dome of the Museu de Belles Arts beyond
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Valencia, Spain

Nine kilometres of garden in an old riverbed, a summer beach set aside for dogs at Pinedo, brunch in Ciutat Vella and a café where a colony of cats waits for a home. Where to eat, walk and stay with a dog in Valencia.

A quiet tarmac path between flowering rhododendrons and tall trees in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Glasgow, Scotland

A whisky bar with a thousand bottles, a German beer hall on the city's oldest green, a Victorian park on the River Kelvin and a country park with its own Highland cattle. Where to stay, eat, drink and walk with a dog in Glasgow.

Walkers on a path beside the lake in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, on a clear winter day
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Paris, France

A tea room on the Rue de Rivoli, two literary cafés in Saint-Germain, breakfast by the Canal Saint-Martin and a lake in the Buttes-Chaumont. Where to stay, eat and walk with a dog in Paris, and the rules for getting there.

A tree lined avenue with iron benches in the Buen Retiro gardens, Madrid
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Madrid, Spain

Long lunches at Italian trattorias that say yes to dogs, a restaurant named after the dog, a taberna terrace open since 1908 and the shaded avenues of El Retiro. Where to eat, walk and stay with a dog in Madrid.

Dog Friendly City Guide: Columbus, Ohio
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Dog Friendly City Guide: Columbus, Ohio

A dog friendly guide to Columbus: the Scioto Mile and the creek trails, the city's craft breweries and coffeehouses, the best barbecue and the German Village pubs, and its certified dog friendly hotels.