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Kate’s EQUIDRY Jacket Review: Road-Tested in Iceland

Icelandic weather, long days in the saddle and one very good jacket. Here’s why EQUIDRY earned a spot in Kate’s riding holiday kit. Hand on heart, Iceland is in Kate Pilcher’s top five riding holidays. The horses. The landscapes. The people. The belly laughs. The saddle time. It all adds up to one phenomenal adventure.…

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Reykjavík: Your First Stop on an Icelandic Horse Riding Adventure

For intrepid adventurers who have taken the plunge and booked our Touch of the Highlands Ride or our Icelandic Highlands Ride in Iceland your first port of call in this extraordinary land of fire and ice is Reykjavík. Few capitals are as delightful as Iceland’s — charming, quirky, and welcoming, much like the people who call…

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Meet our Guide: Rudi Stolz

Rudi Stolz is the guiding force behind our rides based in Catalonia, Spain. He loves nothing more than to proudly show off the stunning Catalan landscapes he loves from the back of one of his gorgeous steeds. Read on to find out all about what makes this Globetrotting guide tick. How long have you been running…

Meet a Globetrotter: Fanny Michaud

Just recently we had the pleasure of meeting Fanny Michaud, who joined us on our globetrotting adventure through Tasmania – The Tassie Tiger Trail [edit: sadly no longer available]. We shared some yarns over wine, cheese and chocolate-coated raspberries (yum!) and I wanted to give you the chance to meet her as well! Fanny will…

Meet a Globetrotter: Debbie McKenzie

Horses have always played a huge role in Debbie McKenzie’s life. In fact, they have taken her all around the world, not just on globetrotting adventures but also for work! She has been fortunate enough to train horses in Spain, lead horse rides along the beach in North Devon, groom Hanoverians in Germany and exercise…

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Meet a Globetrotter: Lauren Cromb

For globetrotter Lauren Cromb, her first horse riding holiday was a treat to celebrate what she termed her ‘funemployment’, a time to enjoy some much needed R&R after working the fly-in fly-out lifestyle for so many years. And fun she did have, with Globetrotting’s superstar guides Laura and Christian Hayes on the Craig’s Hut and…

Meet a Globetrotter: Kate Lattey

After talking about riding in the South Island of New Zealand for a while, Kate Lattey and her sister finally got around to doing something about it and joined us on the Glenorchy Back Country ride. And we’re so glad they did! Throughout her life, Kate has never been far away from horses and her…

Meet a Globetrotter: Katie Fox

Answer me this, globetrotters: when do you ever get to do something that is just for yourself? I’m talking choosing to do something because YOU want to do it, not because a friend or family member has suggested it and wants to go with you, but because you are treating yourself for all your blood,…

Meet a Globetrotter: Laura White

On the second day of her first ever Globetrotting adventure, the Tassie Tiger Trail [edit: sadly no longer available], Laura White discovered something: her eyes had been opened wide to the incredible world of travel on horseback. And the story gets better: that same day, she jumped onto our website again and booked herself on…

Meet a Globetrotter: Carolyn Francis

I had been keeping an eye on Carolyn’s Instagram account for a while and as she kept posting the most brilliant photographs of her globetrotting adventure through Argentina on The Patagonia Trail, I just knew I needed to introduce her to you. So my wonderful tribe of globetrotters, here’s Carolyn’s story about how horses have…

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Meet a Globetrotter: Oi Yee Adams

She might be a late starter when it comes to the horse riding world, but Oi Yee has well and truly made up for it! Since the very first time her backside touched a saddle Oi Yee has refused to get off, and joined us on her debut Globetrotting adventure on the Howqua River Ride.…

Meet a Globetrotter: Sue Leitner

From the sound of Sue’s first experience with horses – an extremely naughty little Shetland pony – it’s amazing that they became a huge part of her life. Now she is combining her love for riding with her love for travel and has joined our globetrotting tribe by completing her debut horse riding holiday on…

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Meet a Globetrotter: Desiree Charlesworth

Culture? Tick. Freedom? Tick. Adventure? Tick. Adrenaline? Tick. It seems ‘the bigger the better’ is the philosophy when it comes to choosing a horse riding holiday for globetrotter Desiree Charlesworth. Des is one of our most loyal globetrotters and as with many, once she got started she couldn’t stop. Addicted to the world of horse…

Meet a Globetrotter: Anne Cowell

Sometimes when you read what someone has written you think to yourself, “Yes, that’s exactly how it is, I couldn’t have put it better myself.” Well, I got that feeling when reading Anne’s responses to our ‘Meet a Globetrotter’ questionnaire so I’m just going to go right ahead and let her do the talking. Her…