horse riding
Atlas & Boots’ top 10 posts of 2020
As a difficult year draws to a close, we reflect on the top 10 posts that our readers most enjoyed Well, what can we say about 2020 that hasn’t been said already? As a writer, I feel that I should be able to say something grand and stirring about the global pandemic, but to be honest, I can’t. I don’t know how to aptly describe the hopelessness and inertia that so many of us have experienced this year. Peter and I are relatively lucky. Our friends and family are healthy and we’ve both had some personal highlights: I published a book, wrote another and started Asian Booklist while Peter climbed his third seven summit, completed hikes in Germany and Croatia, and undertook the ‘micro-challenge’ of climbing all 41 mountains in the Yorkshire Dales. At the same time, like everyone in the t...
Hanging up my hat: why I’ve chosen to quit horse riding
After years of riding horses, Kia explains why she’s chosen to quit My first impression of horse riding was how bloody slow it all was. When I first started to learn back in 2014, all we did for months was walk and trot. I thought I’d be well on my way to cantering by then. Instead, I was mired in the minutiae of technique. As I became a better rider, however, I realised that it wasn’t minutiae at all but a fundamental part of learning. It’s often said that the best riders look like they’re not doing anything at all and I’ve learnt that this is true. I was being taught a multitude of tiny things slowly and carefully so that one day, I too might call myself a horseman. Atlas & Boots Kia riding in Montenegro, Ecuador and Namibia When I was learning to canter, my instructor as...
