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[clo_again]

Today I went horse riding through Lothlorien, Amon Hen and Isengard. Plus locations from >Prince Caspian and Wolverine. We waded across rivers that came up over my boots even on my horse and cantered and I kind of loved my horse for the afternoon (my afternoon horse was a sweetheart called Wilson. YES I THOUGHT OF HOUSE), even before I found out he was one of the Prince Caspian horses. And our guide's horse this afternoon was a horse of Rohan. They had a bunch of film star horses. It was awesome.

Then I went for dinner with an American guy I met yesterday and then for drinks and it took me actually almost falling asleep on the table to get away. I left my hostel at 8:30am this morning and didn't get back until past 10pm; I have every excuse to be tired.

But the horse riding was so worth it. It was such a beautiful, awesome, freezing day. So, so worth the two months of anticipation; my only regret is that it was too muddy to canter more than twice. Apparently in the summer you can gallop all the way around the track we took, which just means I have to come back but until I've made back all the money I've spent on this trip... it was still an awesome day. I'm so happy I did it.

Tomorrow... tomorrow I'm sleeping in. And posting a box of all my souvenirs and crap back to the UK so I don't have to carry them anymore, which'll be nice. Now, I'm going to go sleep. It's an actual question over whether or not I can stay awake even long enough to change into pyjamas.

One of the girls I've met on this trip just friended me on Facebook... and we already have two mutual friends, one of which is K who I went to uni with and am bridesmaiding for.

...The world is really very small.

And on that revelation, bed.

Comments

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I am so very jealous of you right now :D. But I'm happy for you too.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I would so love to come back with a group of people I know and all do it together, because it's the only thing that would've made it more awesome. So you should come with me when I come back to NZ sometime and we should all do it! :D It would be so unspeakably cool and geeky.

[mayakittenreads]

You think the world is small? Try living in Tasmania. *nods* There is a reason Tassie gets the incest jokes. And the two head jokes. And yeah...

Dude if I had actully ridden a horse more than once in my life I would so do that ride. *adds to list of NZ must dos*

[clo.livejournal.com]

*grins* As a Welsh person, I feel your pain. Except Wales is just big enough that even the Welsh from different places mock other Welsh. It's very odd coming all this way and meeting people you know though. Six degrees of separation and all.

It was so, so easy. One of the guys in my group had never been on a horse and the other two only once or twice. I think they have to make it easy because they get so many LotR tourists who've never ridden before. The afternoon ride (which you don't have to do; the morning was the LotR one but the afternoon one was more fun from a horsey point of view) was more challenging but the guy with us had never ridden before. So if you happen to be in NZ at any point, it's *totally* doable. :DDD

[mayakittenreads]

Awesome. I always wished I'd learnt to ride properly. My only real experience was school camp in grade 6 - I picked a week at a riding camp but got the oldest and slowest horse in the place.