New Forest, 10-12 April 2024
We decided on a few days away during the second week of the Easter holiday with Layla and Jenny's Mum, Wendy.
Weather improved from damp to sunny and dry from Wednesday to Friday.
As well as the forest and ponies, we visited two animal centres and Lymington and Mudeford on the coast.
I have found out since we came back (via Google and www.thenewforest.co.uk) that the area is so named because "William the Conqueror created it as his ‘new hunting forest’ naming it ‘Nova Foresta’, which evolved into its English name meaning ‘New Forest’. The term "forest" referred not to trees but an area subject to Forest Law, reserving the pursuit of beasts within it exclusively for the king and his officers."
It is a lovely part of the country, although we do feel that three days is plenty enough at one stay, it is an easy place to get a feel for and that in itself can lead to a sense of wanting to do something different.
These photos are from my Canon Powershot SX720HS compact as well as a couple of panoramas from iPhones.
Note regarding the pictures:
These are my photos and tweaked photos.
Please contact me using the links on this site if you would like to use any of them.
If I discover that any have been used without my expressed permission please note that I will look for you, I will find you... and I will wreak untold misery upon you.
(2024)
These are my photos and tweaked photos.
Please contact me using the links on this site if you would like to use any of them.
If I discover that any have been used without my expressed permission please note that I will look for you, I will find you... and I will wreak untold misery upon you.
(2024)