Sunday morning was warm, and slow, and it had been raining through the night. We lazily sat around having coffees, reading and waiting for the tent to dry, while our washing was on, and enjoyed watching the other campers take their tent cities down. They took all morning, and it is amazing that all their gear actually fit back in their small SUV's with the kids and dog.
You should have seen the gear that came out of these massive tents.
By elevenish, we were bored, and they were taking forever, so we picked up our tiny tent and chucked it in the van. We were packed and moved into our new pitch in ten minutes. We had a nice chat to our new neighbours, Andy and his wife from near Hastings, and then walked down the road to St Peters Finger pub to finally have our Sunday roast.
At least we saw a badger....Hall & Woodhouse are Brewers.
It was warm, but the wind was chilly. The English have no idea what summer is supposed to be like. The pub was busy, it is Fathers a Day here, so we had to sit outside in the garden, with the kids playground, but it wasn't too bad. The Badger Ale we got, was traditionally served at room temp, shite temp, bloody warm, ugh! It would have been nice cold.
Out the back in the beer garden, the explanation of the pubs name. Cool.
The roast was good, and we didn't have to wait long, and then we sat in the warm sun and had a few more drinks. Pims was a better choice for me, and Will went for what ever was cold. We trundled back, to sit and relax, reading and planning our next move.
Wills version of an eski.....not quite as cold as he'd hoped.
My new cup, thanks Will, it is really cute. Doesn't keep the cider cold though..
Monday morning, we woke in the rain, and it had been raining most of the night. Bugger! We thought we might be able to stay put, as there was a few things to see and everything was too wet to pack. But no luck, we had to move. So we just threw all the gear in the back of the van wet, and went off to check out Poole Marina. It was still raining, but we had a walk around the marina, and checked out the massive boats. It seems that there may be a Sunseeker boat building centre here. We got ourselves some food for the day, and we headed off to the Tank Museum.
It is a nice port, if the rain goes away. At least the ferry is sunny.
Who doesn't love a pirate ship?
Cool pub, and I hope that lady got a good picture of me.
These were the babies, the grown up boats were twice that size.
The sign says "Live & Eat Pie", my new life moto!
This was not my idea, I'm not that interested in war, machines or museums, but Will was interested, and it is one of the biggest of its kind, with over 300 tanks, many still operational, and The Fury tank from the movie. So we went. It was not cheap, at £13 each ($52), but it was comprehensive. Six areas, with all number of vehicles, displays and information. Amazing history, interactive displays, information overload. Sometimes, they will get the tanks out in the arena, and have demonstration battles and stuff. It was seriously cool. For anyone who has seen the movie Fury, with Brad Pitt, the Tiger tanks used in it came from this museum, and the staff at the museum were driving and maintaining the tanks on the set. The display was great.
Little Willie, was the first tank ever built.
This one was called "The Mother", they made males (canon) and females (machine gun).
The biggest tank from WW2. Bloody massive.
Don't go all "Cher" on me Willsie...
This is the actual tank used in the movie. It is still able to run. Way cool.
What the Germans saw coming over the trenches. Would have been terrifying.
After way too many hours in the museum, we drove to Lyndhurst in The New Forest, to try find Long Meadow camp ground. Andy had told us it was great, with wild deer, ponies and cattle roaming freely. Lots of nice walks etc too. It wasn't hard to find, being halfway between Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst. It is a big field once again, and as we drove in, we could see a big herd of deer. This did start a whole bunch of "Deer" cliches and bad use of the word by Will.
We are the most colourful outfit we've seen, other than Kombis.
We've seen lots of these BBQ's, let's try one?
It was pretty quiet, and the day had cleared to a nice sunshiny afternoon. We set up camp, and left it to dry while we drove into Brockenhurst to get a few coldies to have with our BBQ. we've bought one of the English style disposable ones. It's just an alfoil tray with coal in it. They are popular here, but it really didn't work very well, and we had to break out our little gas burner to finish off the sausages and steak. Bit of a bummer, but also funny.
"Oh deer, it's not really working, break out the gas!"
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