Ever fancied riding along the historical Rotten Row in the centre of London?

Photos: Ashley G Watts Photography

AQHA.UK members Ashley and Amanda Watts along with Mandy Miles took “Dually” aka Doc Duz It Easy and Duke aka “Snippers Dynamite” with others to live it up in the city!

Ashley comments “On a Sunday in London, you can park – even a horsebox - on single yellow lines, with this in mind, when we left home we travelled to London with the aid of my trusty sat nav, I use the term loosely, as it appears that when there are high city buildings it keeps changing its mind from left to right and then likes to send us back the way we came! We knew we were heading to Hyde Park, but as we went past Harrods for the second time I realised we were doomed! However, Amanda, showing remarkable perseverence in the face of London's adversity, jumped out of the lorry, and hailed a black cab. Telling the cabbie to drive slowly and head for Hyde Park, we arrived in style 10 mins later.

A slight misunderstanding with where we were to meet the others on the ride, meant that they had parked in Sussex Gardens opposite the park, their first thought to drive over to where we were, ended up with them turning up on horseback, whilst we enquired as to whether we could in fact park on single yellow lines. Although we were told we needed to get a permit, it would appear that you need to find a policeman for this, and of course there were none in sight, so we fed the parking meter, unloaded 3 horses in the road, complete with traffic stopping measures and mounted up (except for the rugged man of the group who was on foot - me!)

Dually and Duke did their best to impress the hordes of people who were making their way to the funfair, and stopped to watch. We had a great time, we did find three policemen in the end and guess what you don't need a permit – or perhaps it was because we bribed them with soup and scintillating conversation? We had a great time, and would go back again, even though when we left (after holding up the traffic again), and headed off down Oxford Street, the sat nav played it's last pre-christmas prank on me by diverting us through Hoxton (wherever that is!). It was a great day".