LINKS

Here are a few links to help you get insurance cover, find a flight, hire a car, or even book a room if you feel like staying a few extra days. We hope you'll find them useful. Any purchase you make here is outside your arrangement withHorse-e-World so please check terms and conditions carefully.

HOLIDAY INSURANCE

Activity holiday insurance >>

We understand that all types of riding including trail riding, dressage and jumping are covered
under the Ventureguard Group 2 policy, provided it is NOT competition.

FLIGHTS, CAR HIRE, HOTELS

ebookers >>

Opodo >>

BOOKS AND MAPS

For your visit to Epona

The Rough Guide to Andalucia >>
The definitive guide to one of Europe's most alluring destinations. With listings of the best places to stay, eat and drink, this guide also features topics ranging from Moorish architecture to the art of flamenco

Lonely Planet: Andalucia >>
This guide to Andalucia measures details on where to enjoy the best sandy beaches, alluring countryside, spectacular mountain ranges and enticing cities, as well as providing a range of accommodation options.

Michelin Green Guide to Andalucia >>
This addition to the "Michelin Green Guide" series provides travellers with a comprehensive guide to the cultural and natural highlights of Andalucia.

Pallas Andalucia >>
In this masterly book, Michael Jacobs looks with fresh eyes at all the traditional delights of Andalucia while doing full justice to the lesser-known aspects of the region 'In short. It's one of the best one volume books on Andalucia. An introduction to the history of the region from Tartessus to the present day. There are chapters about Flamenco and the gypsies, the ferias and fiestas, as well as providing a guide to a lot of the principal cities and pueblos of Andalucia.

Detail Maps: Andalucia - Costa Del Sol
/Sevilla/Cordoba/Granada
This map is part of a series covering popular European tourist destinations. At a scale of 1:200,000, it details the Spanish region of Andalucia, including the Costa del Sol, Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada. It is ideal for route planning and touring, and stars indicate places of particular interest.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Seville & Andalucia >>
Seville and Andalucia, where bullfighters, flamenco dancers and white villages all come together, are presented in this guide. Detailed maps give you access to the provinces, cities and towns - cutaways and floorplans help you explore historical sites, such as the Alhambra Palace.

AA Road Map Andalucia & Canary Islands >>
This detailed up-to-date map features 6.3 miles to 1 inch scale and extensive place-name index. It also provides all the information you'll need on motorways, dual and single carriageways, local roads and those that are still under construction.

Two Middle-aged Ladies in Andalusia - Penelope Chetwode
Penelope Chetwode's sole companion over the disused mule tracks and goat paths in the wilds of Andalusia was the 12-year-old bay mare, La Marquesa. Their adventure offers a vivid picture of life in rural Andalusia in the early 1960's.

Driving Over Lemons:
An Optimist in Andalucia - Chris Stewart
A wonderful book: funny, affectionate, no hint of patronage, a true portrait of place and people, reaching deep into the flesh and bones beneath the skin. Tuck it into your holiday luggage and dream.

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree - Chris Stewart
Chris Stewart turns another leaf on his life in southern Spain in this 'sort of' sequel to his biography, 'Driving Over Lemons'. It is in fact part sequel - further (mis)adventures of Chris and his family on their remote Andalusian farm.

CDs

Fantasy >>
Conductor: Carlos Gomez, Performer: Gustavo Montesano with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. For those uninitiated in the sound of Flamenco and for those who get a little weary of foot-stamping and the uncompromising gypsy style, this is a fine introduction.

Passion >>
Flamenco guitar as it should be, performed by the fabulous Paco Pena with 19 classic tracks.

Carlos Heredia - Gypsy Flamenco >>
The raw and powerful Flamenco you'll find in Seville and Jerez. For some it's a difficult to acquire taste, but for many of us, it's the true heart of Andalucia.

For your visit to Pinetrees and QPA

The Mini Rough Guide to the Algarve >>
The Algarve has always been at variance with itself, more Mediterranean than Atlantic, as much African as European, its Islamic heritage visible in a Christian society. It is altogether, in its 5,000 square kilometres, a contradictory cosmos

AA Essential Algarve >>
An informative text, complemented by colour photographs and AA maps, this guide provides the traveller with essential travel information and practical advice on accommodation, shopping and eating out. It suggests walks and tours, and "Top Ten" sights, with practical information.

Algarve Insight Travel Map >>
This Insight Travel Map sets new standards in modern road cartography, with up-to-date computer generated mapping; major routes and toll roads are clearly marked and there is a comprehensive index booklet and unique distance indicators for route planning.

Collins Holiday Map: Algarve >>
Large scale double-sided road map of the Algarve with tourist information and indexes to places of interest and hotels. Scale 1:100 000 (1cm to 1km/1 inch to 1.6 miles) Includes town plans of Lagos, Portimao, Praia da Rocha, Albufeira, Faro and Monte Gordo. Text in English, Portuguese and French.

Pocket Guide to the Algarve (Berlitz) >>
Portugal's southernmost province has the best climate in the country and one of the kindest in the world, with over 250 days of sunshine a year. This book is a travel guide to the area, and provides insider information and tips, hotel and restaurant information, maps,language and culture tips.

AA Baedeker's Algarve >>
Featuring colour-coded page edges for ease of use, this guide presents an extensive gazetteer of all places to visit and major sites to see, and presents sections on the art, history and cultural background of the Algarve. An A-Z of practical information is also included.

Algarve and Southern Portugal (Thomas Cook Travellers) >>
This guide to the Algarve and southern Portugal features a selected guide to accommodation and places to eat to suit every budget. Carefully mapped out walks and tours guide you through locations. Special feature pages highlight the flavour of the region. Maps complement the text, covering the Algarve, the Alentejo, Estremoz, Faro, Evora, Ferragudo, Portimao, and Beja. A weblinks CD gives an introduction to the region, pictures and music and directs readers toward Web references relevant to the destination.

For your visit to Orthal

Rempstone

A-Z Road Map of Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire>>
This full colour foldout road map of Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire covers an area extending to Chepstow, Nailsworth, Lechlade, Abingdon, High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Farnham, Midhurst, Chichester, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole, Swanage, Weymouth, Isle of Portland, Bridport, Ilminster, Glastonbury, Clevedon and Newport.

Dorset Video - A County Of Contrasts [1995] >>
A video study, by Stephen Bolwell, of the beautiful and varied county of Dorset. From Lyme Regis to Dorchester and Shaftesbury to Sherborne we discover many of the county's secrets.

Horse riding holidays in Spain, Portugal and Italy