Showing posts with label france. Show all posts
Showing posts with label france. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Brotherly love: Carmargue Horses

Brotherly Love: Horses near Montpelier
Last in a series of horsey photos with a European flavour..... and this is a holiday snap of my own, taken on holiday in France a just a few days ago (hence all the European horse photos that I have been using to fill in while away on holiday!)

The area we stayed in is full of the lovely Carmargue horses, an ancient breed found in South of France and I caught these cow-boys sharing a moment in the field beside our campsite in between their bull running. One came back with a bloodied nose, but after watching them relieve their itches on the barbed wire fences I am not sure he even felt it.

The Carmargue horses: Friendly faces near our campsite
Other than with each other, they had lovely natures and to be honest I think half the argument was over who was getting the most attention or treats from the families passing by on the way in and out of the campsite each day!

Monday, 11 April 2011

On the carousel

This is as close as I have been to a horse all week.....we have been 'en vacance en France', the lovely St Gervais Des Bains near Mont Blanc for ski-ing and sunbathing in almost equal measure.



The lovely old carousel in St Gervais sits below a beautiful alpine backdrop, and was open every day for a few hours. At 2 euros a go, my children did their best to free us of our spare change at least once a day.