How do you get to your yard?

Celestica

Celestica

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Apart from the money factor preventing me from owning a horse, the travel factor is nearly just as bad, if not worse!:mad:

There are several yards near by, my current riding school though is 20km away (all motorway roads so 30mins drive). But the yards that are within the 15km radius are so hard to get to! Buses don't go up the mountains so they all stop half an hour away so you'd have to risk your life walking or cycling on the roads with no footpaths over here!

I'm only legally allowed to drive this year but if I chose to buy a car + petrol and insurance, just even looking at a horse would be too expensive! How do you all manage to get to the yard? Lifts from parents? Your own cars? Public Transport?
 
I'm lucky in that my horse is kept in a large riding school/livery yard in my village. So mostly I walk (takes 5 mins).

If I'm going on afterwards to teach or have drop my daughter off first, I drive though. Public transport in Somerset is the pitts.
 
I drive although the yard is not that far from my house so I could walk it in about 20 mins if I needed too and have just got a bike so am planning on cycling some days in the summer.
 
i used to walk as its not that far away, since i got my car i drive everywhere but should really walk when the weather is nice.
i used to get my dad to be a taxi too, although he hated that but i also got lifts from the other girls/guys from the yard.
 
well I drive or will probably cycle when I move her closer to home. How about looking at scooters or something? Maybe!
 
Short walk, two buses and a short walk to get to yard. If going to work afterwards I then walk, bus then train. Can also walk, tube, bus, walk to yard which runs more frequently, but takes longer. Takes me 40 mins from home first thing, but 50 mins later in the day. Takes 50 mins to get to work.
 
Car. No other way of getting there. Too far to realisticly cycle and too dangerous anyway. Public transport is absolute rubbish and goes nowhere near any good yards, I'd rather not own a horse than keep it in the one or two yards just out of town, horrid places with NO turnout.....In short I wouldn't keep a horse if I didn't drive and have independent transport.
 
I cycle - I don't like driving and I don't like the price of petrol!

My share horse is 15 minutes away if I can cycle down the farm roads, but if it's dark, i have to go the long way which takes me about 30 minutes. If I drive it's still 30 minutes, but I get there all wound up.
My RS is about an hour away but it's a pleasant journey on nice, flat roads!

OP if you don't want to cycle or take public transport, what about a Moped? Still cheaper than a car and you can drive those at 16!
 
Getting to my share horse is one of the only things I use my car for at the moment, not worth the £40 a month insurance and ridiculous petrol costs, oh god and road tax, oh and I just got my first speeding ticket :-( plus I am a magnet for parking tickets (OK OK I'm disorganised and late a lot). Oh no wait I also use it for giving my friends lifts (grumble) and them not giving me petrol money or anything in return (grumble).... I think a scooter would be a great idea for you, cheaper and more economical although I don't know how scooters fare on those mountains!
 
Drive, it's 10 minutes in the car but hours walking/cycling as you can't use the a road so you have to go the long way round! My old yard which I still live near is about 10 mins walking .. But ridiculously expensive for what it is and is busy, has rubbish fencing even though it's right next to the slip road so I will only ever go back there if I had no other choice
 
I'm only 16 so its bus and parents or friends from yard with cars for me.
Bus stops outside estate for me to go to yard and it stops just at the top of the road, only three mins walk down the road. Parents always pass yard on way home so i get a life with them after ive ridden.
Also a yard friend lives 2 mins away from me so she sometimes gives me lifts.
 
Car...I can walk and have done when it was very snowy before I had a 4x4 and also when my car was being fixed had to walk it for a week. Its not far but I have my tack in my car and keep some rugs etc in there for security as our yard isn't very secure, and I also have an x year old daughter who is fine walking one way but after doing all the jobs at the yard gets tired and moany walking back!!
 
I drive as he is kept about 12 miles from where I live. There are closer yards but none as nice or with the excellent hacking that I have.
 
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