Hi,
So Friday afternoon, my brother, father and I packed up our Motorhome (Maisie) and headed off to the New Forest. I haven’t been to the New Forest in years – last time I went I must have been about 8-9.
Only problem with the New Forest?
Horses. Horses EVERYWHERE. That is something someone with a very mild/fear of horses does not appreciate. Luckily, none were at the camp we were staying at. They were down the road a bit.
The actual trip was really relaxing. We got to the camp site after about an hour (I revised on the way) and quickly set up at our chosen pitch. However, we had to move as we had unknowingly parked in an area that was off limits. We repacked the van and moved the van. The campsite itself was massive – very grassy and with trees dotted around the place. The first half a day was more a chance to relax. We set up, had a barbeque and amused ourselves until bed (my brother made a very big point of asking for Dad to pay for internet access for the few days we were there. Only problem was, one person could use it at a time – so we had to alternate between an hour per person.
The second day, we woke up, got ready and drove into the closest town for an explore. We went for a family walk around this forest-y area and explored a bit. Only a few horses were spotted and they didn’t approach us, so all was fine. We walked for about half an hour, realised we hadn’t a clue where we were going and doubled back, and headed to the closest pub for a pub lunch.
After a really nice pub lunch (I had pasta with garlic bread), we had a look around the main town. There were four shops relating to witches, two pubs, a bicycle rental shop, an icecream stall and a model car shop. It was rather peculiar. It was rather fun to have a poke round the weird witchy-related shops. There were so many as a white witch apparently used to live in the vicinity, but after gaining unwanted media attention, she moved to the USA.
We had an ice-cream each then headed back to Maisie and went back to the site. We did get a little lost on the way back, though.
The rest of the afternoon was spent walking around the camp site, at the park, reading and revising. We had another barbeque for dinner that went slightly pear shaped as the cool box that had all of the meat in it had actually been on heat mode, so a lot of it was unusable.
We headed back home today around midday in no great rush. It took us an extra hour to get home due to traffic, but nobody really minded.
While it wasn’t the most exhilarating holiday i’ve ever been on, our weekend trip to the New Forest, while boring at some points due to a lack of things to do, was certainly relaxing…. even if a lot of it was spent revising.
Until next time!
-Megan
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