A New Forest walk
The Leader
Trudy
Who Turned Up
Trudy, Trisha, Margaret (welcome to the Wednesday Walkers, Margaret) Wendy, Sue, Beatrice and Tony H, Ros, David
The Walk
Today, we were blessed with beautiful weather and temperatures up in the high twenties. We began by driving to the Long Cross car park near Stony Cross. One or two people couldn't believe their luck with the weather and queried taking a waterproof coat (!). They were quickly talked out of that idea. From the car park we headed north through the woodland including Bramshaw wood. The going was generally easy and we were glad of the tree cover to give us shade from the sun. At Nomansland we went straight to the Lamb Pub.
After lunch we took a more westerly route back through woodland and over open heath until we got back to the cars. By then we were all agreed on it being an excellent walk, but we were thankful we had the woodland shade.
The Pub
The Lamb at Nomansland. We booked a table for nine in the pub garden. It was a riot of colour from the masses of flowers planted around the tables (see Trudy's photos). A glorious setting for an outdoor meal on a brilliant day. The food was good. They even had home-made pies. Probably not the best meal to precede the second half of a sweaty walk, but it was excellent food.
Next Week
Meet and Beatrice and Tony's for a Compton Abbas walk.
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