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August 12, 2008 in Thoughts and Books | Tags: Colorado, Columbine, Home Ranch, Quarter Horse, Rodeo














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August 13, 2008 at 7:07 pm

Stavros

Wow, what a great place for a vacation. I can see now why you returned for a second time. Beautiful photos.

Thought you might like to read about this idea for a future vacation. An acquaintance just came back from this trip and raved about it:

http://www.ridingtours.com/horseback-riding/greece-pelion-coast-ride.cfm

August 14, 2008 at 4:29 pm

adifferentvoice

Stavros,

You gave me this same link on your blog just before I left on holiday, and I didn’t have a chance to look at it properly or even acknowledge it. Sorry. At first glance the number of hours in the saddle put me off, as did the mention of walking on donkey roads (having walked these on foot, I thought how difficult they must be for horses with people on their backs …). But I’ve had a better look at the link now, read the review properly, and also found a direct link to the farm around which the holiday is based:

http://www.horsebackriding.com.gr/index.swf

I agree, it looks wonderful, and would suit three of us down to the ground. If alternate mountain bike routes are also available it would be perfect. I’ll show the girls.

Sorry to have ignored the link earlier, and thank you for offering it again. I envy your friend who has already experienced the perfect ending of a bareback swim in the sea.

The girls and their friends are going to be riding their ponies from the stable to our house at the weekend – for the first time ever. They might get to drink from our pond – about the best we can manage, and not quite a turquoise sea.

IE has just sent me this :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7560122.stm

Looks as if our days at the ranch might be numbered … I was also musing, a propos of the photographs, that bags are to women like cameras are to men. We have a very nice (I think) Canon EOS digital camera with its standard lens, but it is the so-called “amateur” model. Most of the Alpha men at the ranch would not have been seen dead with it. Instead they paraded their Canon 40D “semi-pro” models with tele-photo lenses. These were twice as heavy and twice and big as mine and necessitated wearing pouches that looked like baby carrying papooses which they would strap onto their chests. I suppose that in the absence of their cars, they had to fall back on other equipment to demonstrate their status, but they seemed to take great comfort in all having identical models, even if one of them had a longer lens. I hope they have better photos than me.

August 18, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Stavros

I wasn’t sure if you had seen it. My friend raved about it. Her Dad gave her the trip as a birthday present.

Take heart, a lot can happen in a year’s time when it comes to exchange rates.

As for cameras, my son Nick is the photographer in the family. BTW, he took some great photos of Patmos and Santorini that intend to acquire for selfish blogger reasons.

August 19, 2008 at 8:45 am

adifferentvoice

… and I’ve just been sent a link to the photos taken by the “semi-professional” family. There are many that are quite wonderful and almost every one is a great deal better than mine.

Don’t I remember that you had some sort of box camera that you enjoyed using? Looking forward to seeing the photos of Greece – the figs are nice, but something new would be good :).

Thinking of beautiful Greece, we all went to see the film of Mamma Mia in New York, and all enjoyed it enormously. Fabulous cast (Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Julie Walters …), and stupendous backdrops which I presume really are Greece. I think other bits of the film might grate on a Greek, but it was very funny and very uplifting (especially for a woman of a certain age with daughters). It’s the best advert I’ve seen for the coastal scenery of Greece ever.

August 19, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Stavros

Mamma Mia sounds very good, I’ll wait to see it with Anna. She returns Thursday.

I do need to get cracking on my next post, thanks for the gentle reminder.

August 19, 2008 at 5:41 pm

adifferentvoice

Good luck with the cleaning! You must be really looking forward to Thursday – I hope the sun shines too.


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