The Royal Windsor Horse Show 2012

Well weekend just past had been an enjoyable one, sunshine and 17C. A nice change compared to during the week of pouring rain and grey skies, I just think, it’s good for the plants to get the water.

 Wendy invited my to join her to the Royal Windsor Horse Show for the Sunday event, as Daks were sponsors to the event and supported the Pony Club. I thought why not! Free ticket to be a bit of a VIP for the day (usally the ticket cost £50!) free food and drink, and doing something quite highbrow and different – I needed to plough into my wardrobe to find a decent dress for the occasion; luckily we don’t need to wear hats!

This year's event was a bit more special as it was also Celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee

Fortunately the weather was great, so the grounds were not too muddy and saturated, but I stuck to flats anyway. Journey to Windsor from Waterloo was an easy train ride, was definitely not in London anymore, the place was so green, the air was cleaner and there was a great view of Windsor Castle from the Showground, very lovely.

The food inside the Pony Club was actually not too bad, a buffet of picnic foods like scotch eggs, sausages, salads, skewers, though the bosses at Daks were not use to this type of pallet of food, and eating from paper plates, will admit I was skeptical about the food as I heard last time they only served bland cucumber sandwiches, (I even brought some sushi for me & Wendy to have, but the food didn’t go to waste!)

The competitions within the show were national so many clubs within the UK competed, some events quite interesting to watch Dressage competitions and show jumping, was quite a nice day out and saw a little tiny pony that was adorable!! <3 was interesting to see how there horses were to perform, was pretty nice to see one of the Olympic contenders taking part in the jumping time trials with no faults.

The Royal family usually attend this event, but I think they didn't make an appearance until 5pm where the singing performances kicked in, but that time we left as both of us were tired

Definitely a lovely day out for a Sunday, definitely need to make effort with more day trips out of the M25 bubble

Horse riding weekend away

My friend asked me whether I fancied going on a weekend Away to go horse riding. I thought why not it's quite a good deal, £200 all inclusive of Travel, horse riding, food and accommodation.

So off to a Welsh village near Brecon  via the mini bus that picked us up from Ealing Common station; I was a bit sceptical because of the poor weather conditions, but in the end it didn't really bother me; when it rained, it poured in sessions!

The accommodation was at the organiser's farm house, was basic amenities, but was fine bonus was there was a hot tub in the garden!

During actual horse riding day was a good little adventure but 18 of us lined up on horses did slightly slow the pace of things. Majority were beginners in riding and couldn't control their horses who lingered to snack, one girl slipped off her saddle twice because it was too loose on the horse. Was funny when one of the horses started playing with the water as we crossed the river.

Evening was chilled majority of the people were playing this murder mystery game, but I chilled with my cognac and lemonade with my magazine by the fire- very unlike me for a Saturday evening but was nice (^^) I didn't join the game as they spoke Mandarin, a dialect I'm poor at (mental note, still need to have lessons in that language of throw myself to the actual country to learn it!!)

This is a lovely escape out of the city, unwinding and getting aching thighs from the riding. Was quite a bit of me time which is nice, since I wasn't really able to participate in some conversations. It's a good break for a large group of friends especially if it was a birthday, Tony the host makes a treat of a Baked Alaska, very yummy (^.^)

Definitely would recommend this trip to people

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