Nice horse I think not!!!
It was sunny and Mark had found a fairly flat jaunt for us to romp around and its definitely a walk I would recommend you do apart from the horses ...
Mark is always saying he's not keen on horses and I'm oh they are lovely, so elegant and powerful and well as it turns out quite scary. We had to cross a field with a dozen or so horses in and like a lot of animals they head over to you thinking they are going to get fed. No these just wanted to 'have' us. The leader horse was really quite lively and even though Mark was shouting at them (whatelse can you do?) they contined to pursue us.
I was getting quite scared and we ended up running to the stile to climb over, not easy when you are in a panic, to then feel relieved we made it through.
A lovely meander through forest, crossed a proper mini river about a foot deep, our boots were great. Mark's feet were dry as he belted across, I got some water in as I took a bit longer. Our Meindl Ultra GX boots from LD Mountain Centre have been amazing, http://www.ldmountaincentre.com
Interesting fact re LD Mountain Centre, its where Berghaus was created in 1966 and later sold to Pentland Group PC. If you need any kit the guys at LD Mountain are very helpful.
It wasnt all over though, the bad news being we had to go back through the field of horses. I was so scared, Mark agreed to walk ahead and distract them and I stuck close to the fence line. No hope of getting over this in a hurry as it was barb wire. The leader horse still did a bit of chasing but Mark shouted somemore and it cleared off. Stressed or what? Would we do it again, yes with a big bag of carrots to pelt at the horses.
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