The Long Horse Ride Blog

We are off again! On Monday March 22nd Mike and I arrived at Tiszabecs on the Hungarian border with Ukraine, having picked up the Shagya gel...

This morning I still did not have a driver for the back up lorry who could start at short notice, which meant a worrying delay to the start ...

In January, daughter Iona, singing and playing her electric harp, qualified for the semi-finals of 'The Next Big Thing'. This is a...

Been a bit quiet again as I have had trouble accessing my blog, but the good news is that we are in the EU!! I had to make yet mor...

...which is the Ukrainian equivalent of the Spanish 'manyana', and is the word which most seems to rule my life at the moment. Got ...

I am now back in the Carpathians at Y Tarasa, the small holiday complex where little Zorbee is stabled. The countryside is under two to thre...

If I have gone very quiet for the last few weeks, it is because I have been madly concentrating on negotiations to get the horses into the E...