Today was the start of our journey
across part of Iceland. We saddled up our horses after a substantial
breakfast from which we also made our lunch sandwiches (saddled is the word,
these hardy animals only use a heavy, dressage-type saddle, no pad at all).
Here is the horse I began riding that day:
We were going to travel all day at a
fairly good clip, so we took spare horses with us. Some of us led one, and the
extras were attached to the ones led by staff guides — there were five or so of
them.
We went for three hours or so over the same bare but beautiful terrain.
When the settlers first came to Iceland, about 40 percent of the land was
covered by trees. What the settlers didn’t know was that trees wouldn’t
regenerate in that harsh climate, so now most of it is bare. Lunch was a very
pleasant picnic. Note sheepdog curled up with Louise; he also helped herd the
horses.
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