Join us on our brand new ‘riding and cookery’ week, where you will be collecting herbs and mushrooms and other produce on horseback, then using them later to try out some local recipes.
Daily rides out and lessons based at authentic family guest house. Riding with Fruits of the Forest Cookery course: an insight into Italian [...]
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Gourmet riding holidays: Riding, cooking (and eating!) in Northern Italy
Posted in riding holidays on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sponsored ride in Egypt
Posted in riding holidays, riding news, special offers, tagged horseriding holiday, riding holiday, riding in egypt, sponsored ride, the riding company on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Riding Company have teamed up with horse charity The Brooke, to organise a sponsored ride in Egypt this November to help badly treated horses. In fact, it was in Egypt that The Brooke’s founder, Dorothy Brooke, started the charity in 1930. She was horrified to see hundreds of emaciated horses on its streets, so [...]
Visit the pyramids by horseback
Posted in riding holidays, riding news on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our latest holiday at The Riding Company allows you to experience the breathtaking Pyramids of Giza on horseback.
Head off on a desert adventure across the Sahara, sleeping in colourful Bedouin tents along the way.
Visit ancient monuments far from the crowds, resting and overnighting in the shade of an idyllic Oasis. Visit Bedoin villages and pass [...]
Half term Ride & Ski/Snowboard family week:
Posted in familiy riding, family holidays, riding holidays, tagged family holiday, family riding, family skiing, half term holiday, riding holiday, skiing holiday on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With just a few rooms left, why not try ski-ing or horse riding in the snow for half term?
Sunday 15 – 22 February at the 4* Post hotel, Italian Dolomites. £681 per adult on 3/4 board with return transfer from Innsbruck. Riding and ski-ing extra.
There are short rides, all day rides, rides for intermediates and [...]
Latest single holidays
Posted in riding holidays, tagged riding holiday, single Christmas, single get together trips, single holidays, skiing holiday, winter riding, winter skiing on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Join us on one of our hugely popular ‘Get-together’ riding weeks for singles or riders whose partners and friends don’t ride.
Join our house parties at the friendly Schlosswirt hotel in Austria, set among a beautiful national park.
Gallop or ski through the deep snow, winter moonlight rides through the forest and horse sleigh rides along the [...]
Ski jeering
Posted in riding holidays, riding news, tagged ski jeering, ski joering, winter holiday, winter ride and ski, winter riding, winter skiing on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why not try this latest trend sport, which is offered at two of our Ride & Ski venues, the Post hotel in the Italian Dolomites and at the Strasserwirt in the Austrian Tyrol?
It’s like waterski-ing but the ‘horse-power’ comes from a horse, not a boat! Ski jeering costs £45 per hour.
Have a go at this [...]
Looking for a budget winter holiday?
Posted in riding holidays, tagged adventure riding, austrian holiday, budget winter holiday, budget winter riding, budget winter skiing, ride and ski, winter holiday, winter ride and ski, winter riding, winter skiing on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why not visit Strasswerwirt in Austria for a short break on the piste, with less than an hour on the plane?
Soak up the spectacular Tyrolean Alpine landscape; by horse, skis or foot in just a weekend.
The traditional family run hotel has been in the Nothegger family for generations, and has its own riding school with [...]
Single over Christmas, but don’t want to spend it alone?
Posted in riding holidays, tagged singles holiday, singles ride and ski holiday, singles riding holiday, singles skiing holiday, winter adventure holiday, winter ride and ski, winter riding, winter skiing on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Join us on one of our hugely popular ‘Get-together’ riding weeks for singles or riders whose partners and friends don’t ride.
Spend Christmas at the cosy, friendly Schlosswirt hotel in Austria, set among a beautiful national park.
Gallop or ski through the deep snow, winter moonlight rides through the forest and horse sleigh rides along the river. [...]
Ride and ski in a winter wonderland
Posted in riding holidays, winter riding, tagged winter adventure holiday, winter holiday, winter ride and ski, winter riding, winter skiing on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a moment in every couples’ holiday when things could go disastrously wrong. It’s the ‘holiday hiatus’ in which the words ‘I hate you’ will be murmured through gritted teeth, as each is obliged to enjoy their partners idea of their perfect holiday.
Unfashionable as it is, there is a holiday divide here: women [...]
A record breaker…
Posted in riding holidays, tagged Add new tag, adventure riding, equestrian break, equestrian holiday, equestrian trip, mountain riding, mountain trekking, record breaking holiday, riding holiday on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you go on holiday you don’t expect to break a world record. Especially when you’ve spent the past four years suffering with a debilitating injury and never flown abroad.
But this is exactly what Helen Slaughter achieved on her recent trip with The Riding Company to Schlosswirt http://www.theridingcompany.com/uk/mountain-adventure-schlosswirt.htm And the group she was with made [...]
