The Domaine des Garennes makes a fine central location to explore a charming region on horseback in France. A wonderful family or individual riding holiday option with comfortable rooms, warm hospitality, excellent food, squash and tennis courts and a swimming pool. Alternate full and half day rides go to such destinations as goose and trout farms.
This is a family farm set in an attractive region of oak forests and cultivated fields with many well known historical sites nearby, and is an exceptionally good value. Take advantage of the offer to join this horseback riding trip in France.
Please note that during the months of July and August there are only morning rides due to the heat.
Transfer from Brive railway station at 6:00 pm to the riding center for dinner and overnight. Meet your hosts and the staff.
Breakfast at 9 o’clock. Then spend a half hour getting acquainted with your horse, including feeding, grooming, picking hooves and tacking up. Have a short ride in the surrounding area, followed by lunch back at the center, a typical meal of the Perigord. Relax in the afternoon with a swim, tennis or nap.
A full days ride to ‘Collettes House’. This very old house in the middle of nowhere is in the historic style of the region. Here you have lunch. Then ride through Saint Bonnet, a beautiful old village, and les Rusolles, a forest with ancient chestnut trees. Arrive at the centre for another wonderful meal.
Half day ride over the ‘Causses de Gignac’, with a short rest at the windmill of Gignac. Afternoon free.
Whole days ride to Laval, where lunch will be taken in a small local restaurant in the center of the village. Ride back over the mountains and through the forests to the centre.
Half days ride to Ferriere and Chartrier, two little villages of the Limousin, with picturesque 16th and 17th century architecture.
A full days ride to Ladornac. There you will eat in an ‘auberge de campagne’. After lunch there is a choice between a nap, or a visit to a very old church. Afterward ride back to les Garennes for good-bye celebrations and farewell dinner.
After breakfast transfer to the Brive train station.
Please note that during the months of July and August there are only morning rides due to the heat. This itinerary is flexible and may be changed at your host's discretion due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances.
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The guide was an excellent leader and host. While our hotels and meals were excellent, he also prepared picnic lunches that were 4-Star! The venue for the trip was both exciting and interesting, stopping to visit castles, chateaus, caves and villages of great historical importance in French history. It was an unforgettable... Read more
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