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Germany’s first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.

Roughly 300 riders — mostly youngsters, but there are about 20 adults enrolled — are expected to canter around a gymnasium on Saturday and Sunday, watched by 1,500 spectators.

The competition is part of a growing wave of hobby horsing events internationally: the US and Australia also held their first championships this year.

The events stemmed from a grassroots movement in Finland, where riders trotted their hobby horses through Nordic forests more than 20 years ago.

The pastime has since exploded…

Trainspotting is a British hobby originating in the 1940’s for locomotive enthusiasts. At its core, trainspotting is all about watching trains recreationally and looking for distinctive characteristics as they go by.

In 2003, there were said to be around 100,000 trainspotters in the UK alone. Living in a digital world, the majority of train information and timetables can now be found online – making it easier than ever to know where and when you might be able to see your favourite trains.

The Different Types of Trainspotting

In the UK, there are a few different types of trainspotting practises but all of them revolve around the act of tracking trains in some way. Some spotters will want to take photos of the trains, whereas others are happy to have simply seen the…