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Stern
Ferien im Galopp
von
Frauke Hunfeld
Eine
Woche von Hof zu Hof oder Tagesritte von der Ranch - Irland
zu Pferd ist ein Erlebnis von ungeahnter Freiheit.
Strand,
Sonne, Meer. Unendliche Weiten, tausendfach grün. Und ein
Pferd, mit dem es sich in diese Unendlichkeit hineinjagen
lässt. Ein irischer Nachmittag im September.
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Die
Zeit
Locker in die Steigbügel
Der große schwere Mann mit den Stiefeln, dem Strickpulli und
der Weste nickt noch Paddy und Jimmy zu, dann setzt er sich
an die Theke in John Langs Pub und bestellt ein Bier. Der
Mann gehört hierher, das spürt mann sofort. Nur sein Name
irritiert und paßt irgendwie nicht nach Grange im irischen
Landkreis Sligo:Tillman Anhold, ein Aussteiger aus Deutschland
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Im
Pferdesattel um die Welt
Mit Pferden durchs wilde Donegal
von
Susanne Kappmeier
Wann schmeckt das dunkle, kühle Guinness am besten? -Trailreiter
in Irland wissen es genau. Nach sechs Stunden im Sattel, nach
atemberaubenden Galoppaden am Meeresstrand, Schrittreprisen
durchs Moor und nachdem man sich dreimal verritten hat. Zuhörer
im Pub gibt es immer, die sich die Storys der Urlauber anhören.
Mehr und mehr werden es,die für ein paar Tage oder sogar ein
paar Wochen Irland mit dem Pferd kennenlernen. Sie erleben
Ferien, die mit dem üblichen Pauschal-Tourismus soviel gemeinsam
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Im
Pferdesattel um die Welt
Tipps
vom Profi:
Trailreiter
Tilman Anhold
von Susanne Kappmeier
Sie heißen Glenmore oder Glider, Sandy oder Cormack und man
kann mit ihnen buchstüblich durch dick und dünn, über Stock
und Stein gehen: unsere Irish Hunter.
Sie sind zuverlässige und quicklebendige, trittsichere und
erfahrene Partner. So kann man jeden Ausritt und alle Trails
durch das wildromantische Donegal in vollen Zügen genießen.
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Reisen
& Reiten
Wind, Wasser und grüne Wiesen...
von Jutta Mayer
Wind, Wasser und grüne Wiesen – mit diesen drei Schlagwörtern
läßt sich wohl unser Reiturlaub im Südwesten Irlands am besten
beschreiben. Nach der frühzeitigen Anmeldung im März und langem,
sehnsüchtigem Warten auf den Abreisetag, ging es endlich los.
Das Flugzeug brachte meine Freundin Elisabeth und mich von
Düsseldorf über Dublin zum Flughafen Kerry County im Südwestern
Irelands, wo wir bereits von Mrs. O’ Sullivan herzlich begrüßt
wurden.
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Stern
Irland im Galopp
von
Uta van Steen
Es ist ein braunes Pony und hört auf den beunruhigenden Namen
Flash - Blitz.. Seine Mähne weht so wild wie die Brandungsgischt
des Atlantiks, und seine Augen schimmern dunkler als der Himmel
über Connemara. "Na komm doch mal her" sage ich forsch und
wedele mit dem Halfter. Flash bewegt die Ohren und betrachtet
mich aufmerksam....
Flash hat mich im Sturm erobert - in einem Cuaifeach, dem
Wirbelwind, den es nur in Connemara gibt.
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Jugend
Magazin
Urlaub im Sattel - Irische Impressionen
Ein Sieben-Tage-Ritt durch Südirland: Das schien
meiner Frau und mir der richtige Prospekt, der uns Ende September
die sprach. Vierzig Kilometer pro Tag, Unterkunft in kleinen
Hotels und jede Nacht an einem anderen Ort, gute, gesunde
Pferde und ein erfahrener Führer. Hier wurde kein Pony-Treck
geboten, sondern ein Querfeldeinritt von Kilarney durch die
Grafschaft Kerry, die südwestliche Ecke von Irland, und über
die Pässe des Ballagasheen Gebirges, dessen Gipfel so bedeutsame
Namen wie Windy Gap (Windige Spalte) und Devils Elbow (Teufelsellbogen)
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Pegasus
und PferdeRevue
Nach Irland der Pferde wegen
von
Martin Haller
Der Wind blies stark hier oben auf dem Bergrücken mitten in
der Connemara, er spielte mit den Mähnen und Schweifen der
Pferde, zerrte an unseren Regenjacken und Legte das dünne
Berggras in silberne Wellen. In dem felsübersäten Tal vor
uns lagen braun-grüne Weideflächen, von einem endlosen Labyrinth
aus Steinmauern zerschnitten, so dass das ganze Land wie ein
riesiges Puzzlespiel erschien.
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Los
Angeles Times
Eire
Unfolds Astride a Spirited Steed Over hill, through dale and
into the heart of a beautiful land and its people on horseback
By ANNE
DOWIE
SLIGO, Ireland - It's hard to imagine that there remains in
this world a man who will greet you as a friend even though
you are a stranger, house and feed you, and let you choose
from among his hundred sleek, spirited horses to ride off
on your own across a gorgeous landscape for a week or two.
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The
Irish Post
Get saddled up in Sligo
Nothing in Life is quite so invigorating as racing across
a beachy strand on horseback.
By Brendan Gallagher
If you are not into wild deserted beaches, crashing surf,
rugged outcrops and the smell of peat fires you won't enjoy
this at all. If you detest the thought of long days in the
saddle, hot toddies by a roaring fire,the smack of a salty
wind on your cheek, five star foodand probably the best view
of any breakfast
room anywhere in the world you'd better move.
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Gallop
Magazine
The Esmirald Isle
"A land of Mystery and
Magic"
Five miles of caramel sand streched
before me. Sun kissed the island´s ridge and the sea
swirled at my feet. The air was fresh, salty, full of pre-sunset
silence. And I solitude... I was the only person in the whole
world, and Inishowne the only horse. He snorted, gathered
himself into a tig and danced on the beach. I let the reins
run through my fingers and together we galloped at the featureless
sand. ...read
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Irish
Independant
Thunder on the strand
by Peter
Cunningham
There are still smidgens of snow, sparkling geometric shapes,
up on Benwiskin, Ben Bulben's mountain neighbour. Although
the late spring sunshine has coaxed out primproses along every
bank, down on Cliffony strand you can see the wind is swirling
in from Donegal Bay and unsettling flocks of oyster catchers.
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Irish
Independant
The
Industrialists from Hamburg
When Elke is not out on a horse, she works in Sligo in Abbott
Laboratories. How did she find her way here from Cologne?
"I wanted an Irishman," she says and laughs. We are returning
up a winding boreen, redolent of blooming gorse. "No, I couldn't
live anywhere else." Elke and Tommy also run a B&B and take
any of Tilman's overflow. To the industrialists from Hamburg
and Berlin who come here, the sight every morning when they
get up of sea on one side and Ben Bulben on the other is newly
mesmerising.
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The
Sundy Times
Sligo Trail, Ireland
What's
the attraction? You're given a map, an Irish hunter and the
name of the pub you'll be staying in that night - then you're
off. Six days, at your own pace, along beaches and forest
tracks, mountains and farmland through one of the most untouched
parts of Ireland. Your bags are transported by vehicle, while
fodder and a field for the evening awayt your horse. All tacking
and grooming is done by you.
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The
Sundy Times
Galloping
across hill and dale in lovely Ireland
Killarney,
Ireland – This land’s wildness, mysteries and brilliant shades
of green make it one of the Earth’s natural wonders. A horse
named Misty took me swiftly on a tour of fancy. I rode over
Ireland like a conqueror claiming hitherto unseen lands. With
a group of six other tourist and one guide I rode around Killarney’s
Lower Lake. ...read
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Horse
and Pony
Floridians recount trail riding trip
to Ireland
When my
friend, Sue Kahne said she and her husband, Wally, were going
on a riding vacation through Ireland, my husband Joe Faso
and I asked if we could tag along. Our flight to Ireland went
without a hitch. After a delay at Shannon Airport, we were
driven the 83 miles to O’Sullivan’s Killarney Riding Stable.
We met our host and hostess Doni and Noreen O’Sullivan.
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Horse
Play Magazine
He said / She said:
What one Couple did on their horseback vacation.
Victor
Thomas, 54, a biochemist, and his wife, Diane Bova Thomas,
46, a biologist, of Unionville, Pennsylvania, won the horseback
holiday contest sponsored by HorsePlay and Cross Country International
Equestrian Vacations (CCI). The couple and their daughters,
Anna, 16, and Sarah, 13 both Pony clubbers, keep four horses
and a pony at home. The family wasn’t always such a horsey
bunch. It all began when they won a pony in a raffle eight
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The
New Times
Ireland - a view from Horseback
by
Wendy Carlson
The pelting rain had worked its way under my waxed jacket
and I was soaked to the skin, so I really didn't fancy plunging
through the icy surf of the Atlantic Ocean on a giant gelding
named Apache. Not that I had much choice. Apache was galloping
behind Judd, the equine equivalent of a Mack truck. Every
time Judd's saucer-sized hooves hit the beach they spewed
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Newsday
A Ride on the Wild Side:
Horse-Trekking in Ireland
IRELAND’S
wildness, mysteries and brilliant shades of green make this
land stand alone among earth’s natural wonders’ as Ireland
itself stands alone on the edge of Europe. In such a land
did a horse named Misty wing me away on a tour of fancy, riding
over Ireland’s earthbound heavens like a conquistador claiming
hitherto unseen land, with six other tourists and a guide..
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Robb
Report
The "Real" Ireland
My
next riding adventure took place in Ireland’s wild west, the
rugged seacoast dubbed “the most Irish part of Ireland”. Donie
O’Sullivan, the garrulous owner of Killarney Riding Stables,
offers a variety of inn-to-inn rides that last up to six days.
I opted for a day ride along the Ring of Kerry’s seductive
sea. O’Sullivan expertly selected a horse to fit each of the
six riders. He put a short, inexperienced rider onto a calm
Connemara pony and handed me the reins of “Pepsi”, a powerful
Irish draught.
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Ireland
on Horseback
by Suzy Graham
My two horse-owning sisters and I had always been intrigued
by those ads in the horse magazines for equestrian vacations.
Finally having come to the conclusion that life is too short
to postpone those activities one really wants to experience,
we booked a week in Ireland with Cross Country International.
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Practical
Horseman
The Beach Gallop
From the castle, we moved
on to a day of sightseeing and shopping in Killarney, and
a comfortable night at the Glena House country inn before
what would be our most stimulating ride. Hurricane Iris's
impact on the Irish coast -- waves crashing against shoreline
rocks, wind whipping sheets of rain across the cliffs -- failed
to dampen our spirits or those of Donie Sullivan, owner of
Killarney Riding Stables.
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Australien
Gourmet Traveller
Connemara Horseback - Trailriding in
Ireland
by
Viginia Westbury
WILLIE LEAHY WAS BORN ON MAY 1, which, he says, qualifies
him to become a leprechaun. With his round, tanned face and
bushy eyebrows, he already looks a bit like one, mind. Willie
is the kind of Irishman who says "top of the morning " to
you, flirts with all the women, tells a pretty tall yarn and
can, you suspect, charm the brass handles off a coffin.
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Ireland
on Horseback
by Wendy Carlson
The thunder of galloping hoofs broke the silence of a serene
mountain valley. A flock of sheep stopped grazing to wach
our posse churn across the landscape, a blur of manes and
- tails and determined, red-cheeked faces-This is the Wild
West of Ireland. We were riding through Connemara over countryside
so mesmerizing I hardly noticed I'd been bumping up and down
in the saddle for nearly five hours
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