Off on our own

Whilst the guided treks are always great fun, I love that when I go with one particular friend, the owner lets us go off on our own with the horses.  It's nice that he thinks I am a good enough rider to trust me to borrow the horse and not the ploddy one either.

Well we were very lucky with the weather last week and it was relatively warm and sunny although there were a few flakes of snow driving home.

We made the most of our freedom by stopping at the pub of the village green for a drink.  The horses enjoyed munching on the grass which I think is much lusher than the grass in their field although not sure it was intended as grazing but no-one told us off so guess it was okay.

Don't think horses like cider much although I have been told some of them like beer.

Anyway if that was not enough, as we were leaving we heard the tinkle of the ice-cream van and as we made our way back to the beach there it was sitting waiting for us.  Couldn't resist a 99 icecream with a flake on horseback and we didnt even need to dismount - the counter was the perfect height for service on horseback.

Then it was back to the beach for a canter and even managed to jump a few small logs.