2022 · The New Forest

March 2022

The New Forest

5 chapters

Start at chapter 1 → Newest: chapter 5
Chapter01

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Is this thing still on? Blimey. It’s been ages since I wrote me a travel diary. Surprised the batteries in my iPad’s keyboard haven’t died in the 27(!) months since I last had a proper holiday. But anyway, hello! I’m on…

Chapter02

We’re no strangers to floods

You know the mules, and so do i

February 28th, 2022. Two years to the day since the last time I set foot in an office for work. We’re in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, in the middle of the New Forest. We’d booked breakfast for 8.30am. Turned up promptly and…

Chapter03

Wild boars never lose it

Piering into the distance

As I type, it’s Saturday 5th March 2022. I’m feeling a bit miserable because reasons, and am hoping that writing a diary entry for Tuesday 1st March will cheer me up a bit. Let’s see. The weather forecast for Tuesday…

Chapter04

The day we caught the train

Beside the seaside, beside the sea

Wednesday, March 2nd 2022. Public transport beckoned. But first, a change of breakfast - instead of a fry up, I went for eggs royale. How very posh I felt. It was still raining, having not stopped for something like 30-odd…

Chapter05

It’ll be all Wight on the night Newest

Thursday, March 3rd 2022. Our final day on holiday in the New Forest, and so we left the New Forest. In fact, we were leaving the mainland and getting a ferry across to the Isle of Wight. The rain of…