Stonehenge/New Forest

John Sollis and his wife-to-be Jackie on the Winchester Hills. (ex Moving Pictures)

Drove thru to Salisbury where we parked in a club campsite within walking distance of the town centre. Failed to get the laptop talking to the internet via our cellphone (seems to be a foreign concept here!) Salisbury is a lovely town on the River Avon. The cathedral is great - tallest spire in England!

Next day we drove the short distance to Stonehenge - they appeared small first off, but when we walked around them they were amazing! They have a very good personal audio system you listen as you wander around.

On our way back thru Salisbury we bought our cycles - cost a bit more than expected but look flash!

We drove thru to the New Forest and spent the night at Denny's Wood at a Forest Park site.

Biked to Brokenhurst along forest tracks - beautiful in the Spring light. Well, Don did as Val pushed Don's bike most of the way as he had a flat tyre on his bike and cycled on ahead to get a pump!! Eventually the puncture was fixed and we enjoyed the ride back to camp.

After our adventures on the bikes, we drove back down to the coast and toured through Lymington, Christchurch, Bournemouth and Poole which are really one continuous urban strip along the coast. Back out on to the open roads at last and on to Weymouth which was really lovely - much nicer than the other coastal towns so far.

Tonight we are in a club camp close to Lyme Regis which we will visit tomorrow.

As this weekend is a long weekend we have booked 3 nights down on the Cornwall coast.

We have a ferry booking from Portsmouth to Le Havre on 6 May and hope to catch up with Sue & Patrice then.

Cheers, Val & Don

At Petersfield - Hampshire

Sorry we have not updated since we arrived in the UK. We have not managed to get online thru our cellphone.

We are with John Sollis (ex Moving Pictures) and his partner Jackie at Petersfield. They have taken us for a drive thru the beautiful countryside in this area.

Our flight to the UK went to schedule including an upgrade from Hong Kong to London. We were the first flight from Auckland into the UK after the bloody Icelandic volcano.
The driver was waiting for us and whisked us to our accommodation in Winchelsea where we picked up the camper.
The camper is great. Much better than we expected.
We drove thru to Rye, an ancient town, where we had a great walk thru the old town.
After buying some supplies we spent our first night at Hastings in a camping ground.

Hastings is a mini Brighton with a sea front and arcade.

The next day we spent 1/2 a day shopping for all the things we need like pots, duvet, kettle, toaster etc etc. We bought most of the stuff at Tesco's and price wise it was about the same as NZ.
The next night was spent again in a camping ground at Brighton, found after a hair raising drive thru the centre for Brighton. As the weather is fine, every man and his dog seem to be descending on Brighton.

This morning we walked along the sea front, around the town (amazing buildings), and out onto the pier before driving thru to Petersfield to see John. We are spending the night here and will head west tomorrow.

Learning to drive in a left hand drive vehicle down the narrow roads has caused Val to use some unlady-like language!!!!

Well you are now up to date. We will post again when we get our internet sorted out.

Don and Val

On our way at last!!

We are sitting in the ChCh airport holding boarding passes to London, believe it or not. Whether we get there or not will be another story but looking hopeful.
If we hadn't got on this flight it would have been the middle of May before seats became available.
Hopefully next post from the UK.

Getting excited!!

We have just set up our blog - hopefully we have got it right.
The only problem with our departure is a bloody volcano erupting in Iceland!!