Riding Holidays & Horse Riding Holidays

Riding Holiday Update

freerein — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:28:51 +0000

New website update just uploaded – enjoy at riding holidays

Riding Holidays Feedback

freerein — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:12:57 +0000

Below you will find the results from our 2011 customer questionnaire that was a emailed to a random selection of customers:

Merry Christmas from FreeRein

freerein — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:10 +0000

Riding Holiday Photo Competition 2011

freerein — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:57:56 +0000

Readers who already have pictures from previous trails with us – plus all riders who will be taking pictures during this season – are invited to select their finest FreeRein Trail photos and enter our Grand 2011 Photo Competion.

Entries should be sent on disc – clearly labelled with your name,address/email to:

Photo Comp, FreeRein Riding Holidays, Coach House, Clyro Court, Hereford HR3 5LE – and specifying the Category(ies) you are entering.

The winner of each Category will be offered £100 Voucher OR option of £50 cash prize Nov. 2011

Photo Categories:

Max 4 Pics per Category 16 Pics per Entry.
1/ Preparing Horses out on trail – catching, feeding, grooming, tacking-up
2/ Riders on Trail – Gates, Trotting, Cantering, Map reading
3/ At FreeRein HQ
4/ In the bar
5/ At a farm
6/ Guided Ride / Onto the Trail Rider Group
7/ Mine host at farm, inn or hotel.
8/ Scenary / views (with/without horse).

Cambrian Mountains Wind Turbine Protest Rally

freerein — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:15:18 +0000

On Sunday Mar 6th over 250 people gathered at proposed Nant y Moch windfarm site to show their oppostion to plans to cover this wild and wonderful area with 88 giant wind turbines. There were no NIMBYs. No one lives here. It is one of the most sparsely populated areas in Europe. Protesters had come from as far afield as London and Yorkshire.

The rally was addressed by Jim Perrin, mountaineer and travel writer. who has lung cancer. FreeRein horses Morgan and Poppy carried Jim to the summit from where he gave an informative and impassioned address. Much of what he said was of course well known to protesters – the inability of wind power to replace fossil fuels, its vast cost, its impact on fuel poverty. None of which is disputed by the wind industry. He also mentioned that the beneficaries included David Camerons father-in-law who draws vast sums from the turbines on his land and Nick Clegg’s wife who is a director of a Spanish company which manufactures turbines.

But the real tragedgy of wind turbines is not that they destroy scenery & impoverish the poor. It is this. The £ multi-billions used on them could be spent on developing a source of power which could replace fossil fuels and even nuclear power. Both of these are currently indispensible to a modern industrialised world.

Wind turbine protesters

Riders springing into the saddle create spring in FreeRein bookings

freerein — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:22:18 +0000

An air of expection and excitement is abroad among the horses this spring. There are going to be lots of trips into the hills visiting all our favourite farms and inns. Of late there has been too many times when there has been little to do except stand around the feeding rings gossiping and grumbling – even feelings of animosity towards those who are getting the most trips out. Rumours of compulsory redundancies regularly spread from the office into the fields.
So there were great celebrations when we learned that the bookings for April were double those for last year and three times the year before.
Many of us have been fitted with brand new saddles – and there is a new(ish) Equibus to carry us about. We are all a bit puzzled by how this has come about. Maybe its because there have been no increase in prices for the last 2 years – or perhaps our fellow workers at the airports have helped us with strike threats. Or it could be that – as a result of full page articles in the Times, The Guardian, Observer, Independent and the Telegraph – there is an increasing realisation that us FreeRein Horses, combined with the Great Cambrian Horse Trail Network, really do offer a very special and unique service for horse riders.

Alfie & Archie - The A Team set off on the Begwns Trail Riding Holiday

FreeRein’s 21st Season 2011

freerein — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:45:18 +0000

The happy herd are back from their winter rest, all brushed up, saddles fitted, (some with slightly longer girths than the end last season after a nice few months of grass) & eager to get back out into the hills. Why not come & join us for the first guided ride of the season 8th-10th April 2011. The guided Silver John Trail is 3 full days of riding (lots of nice grassy hill tracks for trotting & cantering) in a sociable group (maximum 8 riders), staying at Inns overnight before returning to FreeRein HQ for tea, homemade cake & a reflective look at the maps.

Four Day Guided Eppynt Trail Riding Holiday

Nant y Moch & Plynlymon Wind Farm

freerein — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:46:01 +0000

Just off to this today. Had forgotton all about the blog. Will try harder,

FreeRein Riding Holidays in the Financial Times

freerein — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:20:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago Daniel Metcalfe came with us on an Unguided 3 day Old Drovers Trail. He was writing about FreeRein for the Financial Times. The article came out almost straight away and was printed in todays edition (the 21st August). You can read the piece by following the link here: FreeRein Riding Holiday Review – Financial Times

Studying the maps and routes at FreeRein HQ

Departing from FreeRein HQ

On trail on the Begwns

We were also lucky enough to be sent a photographer – David Barnes and despite the weather he managed to get some excellent shots. You can find out more about Dave here: Photographer Cardiff

FreeRein Riding Holidays Newspaper Articles

freerein — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:09:15 +0000

Here is a list of some of our recent newspaper coverage:

Neil Coates – Onto the Trail – Saturday Times 02/02/05: Horse Riding Holiday Review

Alex Buxton – 3 Day Unguided – Telegraph 25/06/05: Riding Holidays Review

Katie Drummond – 3 Day Unguided – Telegragh 12/09/09: Horse Riding Holiday Review

Patricia Carswell – 2 Day Unguided – Observer 01/11/09: Horse Riding Holiday Review

Alex Buxton – 6 Day Trans Cambrian Unguided – Guardian 26/06/10: Riding Holidays

Enjoy!