Horsey Holidays Especially For Kids

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For those of you with horsey ankle-biters, this might fit all kinds of bills. From 'This Week':

Finding a rural idyll that also engages children is the classic family holiday dilemma, says Rory Ross in The Independent. Le Frelut, an equine rehab centre for distressed ex-jumpers, dressagers, and trotteurs, offers a solution, since most kids love horses and horses are good for children: they instil confidence, practicality and discipline. The centre is a creeper-clad cluster of stables surrounded by a patchwork-quilt landscape of pretty villages and churches. The accommodation is basic but excitingly close to the action: each morning you wake to the sound of oat-munching, clip-clopping and the friendly equine small-talk of brrrrs and whinnies.

Children will need no encouragement to help with the grooming and mucking-out; afterwards, they saddle up and make best friends with their mounts. If you turn up at breeding time, they'll even get a free biology lesson!

Ferme Le Frelut, near Autry-Issards, Allier, France. Tel. 0033 470 436 218; www.lefrelut.com. Charges: £389 per week for a 6-person gite. Eurotunnel, tel. 0870 535 3535, www.eurotunnel.com, charges from £108 per car return.
 
That's a bit drastic, Betsmate! :( Buy them a donkey ride at Blackpool, then, but don't cull the little beasties!
 
You're a tough couple of parents, you two! Maybe just keeping her room tidy and feeding the pets would be enough, Griffin? It does sound smashing - a real family hols. The kids are taken care of by the horseys, and Mum and Dad are free to roam the local village hostelries and cafes. The weans are suitably exhausted by day's end, presumably, and all the parents can get together for a night of further wining, dining and dancing the night away. I wonder if I can borrow someone's kids?
 
You havent even got yours yet Pewe - shouldnt you at least get it hjome before you want to farm it out??

(Mind you - I was tempted to have a brood to hire out at christmas so people could park in the parent with child places at Tescos....)
 
:laughing: Wrap a tiny tears doll in a blanket & keep it in the boot, then when you go to Tesco voila instant carry in your arms baby :eek:
 
:laughing: :laughing: Top tip of the week! :clap:

To use the Disabled parking bay: dig up a recently-buried old person and prop them up in the passenger seat. "It's me, Dad, see, he's been ever so ill lately... "
 
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