My parents met in the late 1970s in a student riding club in Poland. It was still a communist country, so horses were owned by the state and based in national studs, with access to riding very limited. Going to that club as a kid was my first contact with horses.
At the start of the 1990s, the political scene changed and I started riding properly at about 10, when private riding schools were first established. We didn't have ponies, we learnt to ride on big horses, so some
