Tuesday

Woke up to find the sun shining, and everything looking really fresh after the rain on Monday. We decided to go for a walk in the forest on one of the trails within a few yards of where we are staying. It was absolutely glorious! The forest was so quite and peaceful, and very unlike the common of the day before.

The common was open and ad lots of bushes and heather growing, the forest near our apartment was wooded and full of pine trees, oak trees and ferns littered the forest floor. We didn’t see any animals, not even any horses, but it was just so lovely in the morning sunlight that it really didn’t matter. We walked about 3 miles I think, a round trip from Woodgreen, up to Godshill, and then down to Castle Hill, and then back to the apartment.

Tried going to Lymington, but it when we got there, it wasn’t at all as we had expected so didn’t bother stopping. We then went back to the pub with the hot spot for a late lunch and to check out some things on the New Forest website.

We’ve found that since being here now, for 4 days we have yet to actually mange to be in Ringwood at the right time to catch the Tourist Board office there. Its totally useless, its completely shut on Mondays and then only opens for a few hours each day. 11 – 1pm or something like that. This is no good whatsoever if you want to get somewhere relatively early….. very, very frustrating!

As we had eaten quite late we didn’t feel that we wanted anything for dinner in the evening, but decided to walk into Woodgreen village to see what they’re pub was like.

I’m not actually sure if I have explained what our accommodation is like…… its lovely actually, a really nice place. But, I think we must have found the only self catering place, which is situated on probably one of the only hills in the New Forest LOL. So, the walk DOWN to the pub wasn’t too bad at all, although we were slightly conscious of the fact that we would then have to walk back UP the hill to get back. That being said, apart from a bar lady, who looked a bit more like a bar man, it was very pleasant and after two glasses of wine, we decided to head back.