Where I spent my weekend

I just got back from North Germany, my first time visiting the "International Days of the Arabian Horse" hosted by the Arab farm called Ismer. It's also a zoo. More on that later.

I feasted my eyes on over 100 Arabians and scratched the withers of many foals. I'll tell you all about it soon, but I'm exhausted from 4 hours on the Autobahn today.

The facility was the most exquisite I've ever stepped foot on - countless old, old barns, not fancy, but gorgeous, built in the style of Lower Saxony. (With the "Lord of the Rings" horse head cross on each building - LOTR stole it from Germany, btw.)

Here's a video I just found of Boiselle's visit to the stud (not the show) - I spent the weekend with a group of ladies with enormous cameras who are all students of Boiselle.They called me their Arab expert -  I'm not, really - but they're just photographers, not Arab fanatics,  and I was able to explain a few things (but really not much - I'm just a beginner).

OK here, this is the video, and it shows exactly what I experienced this weekend, with the mares and foals coming in from the pasture into the barns, and sticking their heads out of the open barns (huge barns with no stalls. A wonderful place to be a horse. And since it's a zoo, the foals are ultra-socialized to humans from the start. A place unique in the world, perhaps.

and and and OK I'll try to stop now.