- Horses/ponies

- Qualified English instructors

- Equipment for hire

- Other languages spoken

- ABRS approved

At the Pinetrees Riding Centre there is an international team of staff dedicated to looking after you and, between them, speaking half a dozen European languages.

Owner, Bev Gibbons, has been a resident in Almancil, in the Golden Triangle, for 40 years and would not like to live anywhere else. "It is quite startling when I think that I am now teaching horse riding to a third generation of visitors who just love this place for their holidays and many of whom have made it their home". Her training was principally at the prestigious Talland School of Equitation in Gloucestershire, and with the famous Nuno Oliveira, one of the 20th century international ic