03/12/2025
This guy is here to be started under saddle and he’s truly breathtaking.
And he’s also bringing back a heap of memories too💕
Here’s the short version of a funny story from my crazy life before things got a bit beige and monotonous.
Many years ago when I was 16 & a half, my best friend & I went on our usual summer holiday together for two weeks. It was her turn to pick a country and she chose Morocco.
So off we both trundled, two teenage girls, to a fairly exotic location in those days; completely oblivious & none the wiser which I think was probably for the best.
One evening whilst waiting for dinner at a restaurant overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, I of course spotted horses galloping up and down on the beach. The guys then stopped alongside the beach walkway near to us & I just couldnt resist. I said to my friend I’d be back in a mo !
Half an hr later ( probably an hour) I appeared back at the dinner table to a rather miffed friend.
Anyhow her mood changed when she heard I not only had just galloped up and down the beach on a black horse ( heels and summer dress 🤦♀️😂 don’t ask how ) But I’d also got us a ( horse) ride into the Atlas Mountains the following morning .
We got up early to be picked up & looong story very short we rode all day on beautiful Arabian stallions right up into the mountains , eating watermelon under ancient olive trees and we kept going until it got dark! We even heard wolves.
Yes we did start to to think this could be our final evening on this planet and even more so when we got back to the beach from the night before and were surrounded by shouting Moroccan men demanding rather more money than we had for our mammoth ride .
Somehow we walked away from that fairly easily considering.
My memories of the horses though are still so clear. Tough, sure footed little arab horses that had the balance of a goat and heart of a lion!
The tracks we rode were often sheer drops down the mountain, not great for someone petrified of heights ! 🤦♀️
We enjoyed a slightly less adrenaline filled ride to visit the flamingos 🦩 this time aboard white Arab stallions . I remember my white jeans got stained with flamingo s**t & had to be binned 😂
That holiday was quite something !
Probably couldn’t do it nowadays so I’ll enjoy the memories ore