🇬🇧 Winchester

WINCHESTER

Leaving Bath we headed to our accommodation near Winchester. A hayloft set in a farming district. We drove a maze of busy lanes before finding the loft. A quick chat to the owner revealed many nice walking tracks which lead off their property. She booked us in to walk her two dogs in the morning. One is a 2 year old black lab.

This place has some great spaces in it.

We wasted no time in heading off to catch up with Aussie and British friends Denise and Andy. A 40 minute drive but well worth it as it was so nice to chat with them in a British Pub about their home land, Denise’s granddaughter Little Eliza and our travels. A few shared beers, great wine and many laughs!

We will see them back at home in a little over a week.

We awoke to great views of the horses in the fields.

A chicken was truly free range as it came up onto our veranda whilst I was eating a farm fresh breakfast of eggs and bacon.

There is more than free range chickens that live here!

As promised, we took Bear and Moose for a walk or should I say they took us for a walk through the mud.

I think I truly needed my Laura Ashley gum boots. Maybe next time I will pack them. Bear the 2 year old black lab loved running ahead and into the bushes. He was good at coming back when he was called, but I am sure he ran the walking track four times to our once. He popped out way ahead of us and then he would come racing up from behind. I think the old fashion saying is …. running rings around you!!! Meaning we really had no control of the situation.