Sophie and I have just got back from our weekly horse riding lesson at Quinta da Pombal in Beijos (half an hour away from here). It is a ‘proper’ Portuguese stables with stallions and mares and they do Portuguese Dressage there. We have about an hour with a teacher for a very reasonable price and my beginners riding has improved no end. Sophie gets to do ‘pirouettes’ and ‘spanish walk’. It’s brilliant!
Horse Riding at Quinta da Pombal
You can also go horse riding in the country side here which is an AMAZING way to see it in my experience. You can ride for hours and only see a local villager tending to their goats, no other horses or people and you don’t have to go on any roads…the public tracks go everywhere. I am so lucky!
Beautiful French Cart Horse at the stables where we go riding -he is HUGE
