Riding centre: "From the village of Laragh the ride continues through the National Park and the Annamoe Valley, renowned for its beautiful scenery and historic monuments. This is the perfect ending to a memorable week.”
Woke to an amazing sight - is that sunshine? We were without our support team (had our guides; they spent the night in the village as it was too far to go back to Dublin), so carried our tack down the road to the field where the horses had spent the night, caught them without any grain (Sunny Boy likes granola bars!) and tacked them up. Set off into the forest and up a heather covered mountain until we could look back at the tower and across the landscape. Stopped for a break, then headed down a different way. Only a 3 hour ride today; had to ride through busy Laragh to where Anthony was parked with the lorry - took care of the horses and said goodbye to them before they were loaded on the truck. It was a great week of riding despite the rain - we had fun and saw a lot of the countryside! No injuries or mishaps.
Sally says "my beautiful Irish redhead Lacey was reliable and looked after me."
I discovered that Sonny Boy doesn't like anything white (except sheep) and shied at white rocks, white bags, white dogs, but was strong and surefooted.
After a restaurant lunch and goodbyes (our guides and horse wrangler were headed back to the riding centre) we had time for shopping and found an internet place (but no ATM in the village) - there was an old woolen mill shop and a celtic crafts shop we all had to visit!
Photo: CC by hakejam
