Horses!

Anyone who knows me at all probably knows that I love horses. The first time I went horse riding was when I was about five or six years old thanks to my Mum. Since then riding has been my favourite pastime and I even had a horse at one point, you know, because it's more fun than just burning all of your money. As an au pair that has been put to a hold although I have been in the saddle once thanks to Ollie and his lovely horse HP.

That doesn't mean I'm completely cut off from the horse world, quite the opposite. Here horses are everywhere!

help I've lost my jockey

The nearby racecourse is a very exotic place for a Finn.

I've been to the Huntingdon Racecourse once with Sarah, we got absolutely soaked and couldn't sadly stay until the pony races. It's only less than a ten minutes walk away.

It's not all horse racing here, they also have the tweed kind of horse riding and the normal disciplines like eventing. Sometimes these two overlap and what you get is Burghley Horse Trials, where the crowd wears the tweed and the apparently quite suicidal riders trust their horses to carry them over these massive scary jumps.

surely you must be mad to be do eventing

Ollie and his mum took me there and it was amazing. He also took me to Weird Great Yarmouth but we don't talk about that.