Author Archives: Rebecca Berry

It’s been kind of a year of death for me, but if I am honest with myself, it’s always a year of death for someone. We’ve all endured the heartache...

Three terms plucked from my dwindling list of topics. I’m running with the theme of, well, from the neck up. The Old Four-in-hand Necktie Knot When we hear the term...

A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to Austin, Texas for the weekend so we could go to the Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival. We were excited...

I’m a hippomaniac and a hippophile. You are as well, and I know this because I’m writing about it, and you are reading about it. It means we are excessively...

Ratcatcher. What a great word. As always, this word said in the general public would conjure up a very different image than if the word was spoken at a horse...

I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about the poor air quality caused by wildfires. The news team decided to go to Hastings Racecourse to...

After I arrived home from the UK, I checked around my house to make sure everything was still in running order. When things sit idle for too long they tend...

I arrived home less than 24 hours ago and it feels strange. Strange not to be out driving around the English countryside or the Welsh or Scottish countryside for that...

“I can’t quite believe it really, I’m just so relieved. She deserves [to win Burghley]. I just didn’t want to let her down.” That was Piggy March (GBR) on Vanir...

It was a proper cross-country day at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI5*-L and there were major changes on the leaderboard but also no changes at all. That is...

The Brits retain the top of the leaderboard after day two of dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI 5*L, but not the same Brit as yesterday. “We...

The dressage scores just kept getting lower. We thought we had already seen the winner of the day at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI5*-L in England on Thursday....

For me, eventing has always been about Badminton and Burghley, the two most prestigious 5* in the world. Since my trip started with Badminton, it only seems fitting it should...

I was unsure what to expect when I entered the New Forest. I assumed I’d see ponies and trees and maybe a few roads winding through the area and that...

Of all the Airbnbs in the UK, I had to book this one; a cute one-bedroom house with a clothesline. I knew I was in the county of Hampshire, but...

A million Christmases ago my mom gave me a Newmarket quarter sheet. It was my Santa present, which is to say the best present of the day. It was beautiful....

I’ve always suspected my trip to the UK was possibly leaning more toward a parental pilgrimage than it was embracing my freedom as I explore part of this great world...

Falling in love, I’m told, often happens unexpectedly. I’m here to report that I have unexpectedly fallen in love with the Shetland Islands. It’s hard to pinpoint what turned my...

Glamis Castle is a handsome 14th-century castle in the Angus region of Scotland. A perfect way to spend the day. Early on in this adventure, I made a rule. No...

There are a hundred reasons why I am gallivanting around the UK, but there have always been three main draws: Badminton Horse Trials, the Shetland Islands and, right in the...