Spring has officially arrived in Iceland with the first golden plover, the bird marking the end of winter, spotted about two weeks ago, a bit late this year. This time when the birds return into awaking nature, causing the only, very welcome noise on the quiet, bright evenings is very special and great for riding along meadows and rivers surrounding Eldhestar.
The winter season is just about to come to an end with the last groups of the Northern Light Tours and the Winter Riding Course currently enjoying their stay at Eldhestar. We will continue to offer the Winter Riding Course with both a 3-day program and a 5-day program next season, the dates for can be found on the tour pages.
The last months were quite busy in the stable with daily riding tours, often in great winter weather and snow until mid March. Training of young horses and basic training of foals went very well and it will be interesting to see how the offspring of the relatively young breeding line of Eldhestar will do in the future. Now we are very much looking forward to welcoming this year’s folas! We will soon add information about the Eldhestar breeding and introduce the horses on our website.
As every year, many new tour horses will join our team in the summer season and we look forward to getting to know them better.
On Saturday, April 23 the third Eldhestar Local Tölt competition will take place in our riding hall. We expect even more participants then last year and interesting new horses as some of our staff members will compete on their own horses for the first time and we will see some youngsters from Eldhestar breeding as well. Of course visitors are welcome to cheer. The local riding club Ljúfur also uses our riding hall for competitions and a riding course for children this spring and summer, so there is often something going on at Eldhestar.
The construction work at Hotel Eldhestar will be finished soon with 10 new rooms opening on May 1st. In April we started introducing something which is becoming increasingly popular in Reykjavik but has not been known in South Iceland so far: Sunday Brunch! We were very happy to see how many Icelandic families with children visited us for the first brunch. Brunch will be offered until the end of May and again in September with the possibility of brunch & riding and horse riding for children.