Monday, September 8, 2014

Up Pompey

Before breakfast this morning, we walked a couple of miles around one of the New Forest lakes ...

It was another stunning, very warm day ...

This pony was having a cooling dip in the lake ...

We had our breakfast and got on our way.  

We spotted this not too far along the road.  Now that's the way to carry a car on the back of a motorhome ...

Our first destination today was Portsmouth.

We parked up and had a walk around old Portsmouth.  We spotted a few people out catching some rays ...

There are some great waterside pubs in Old Portsmouth ...

The distinctive spinnaker tower ...

 This memorial celebrates the sailing of the first fleet to Australia in 1787. There is an identical one in Sydney ...

In the foreground is a Thames sailing barge ...

HMS Warrior, an iron clad warship from 1860 ...

Tommy Cooper was in town ... 

We had a very lazy, long lunch in The Slug and Lettuce and, as it was Monday, food was discounted by 50%....bargain!

We then headed to our overnight stop The Hamilton Arms located in Stedham.

This is probably one of the strangest pubs we have been to to in the UK.  It is run by a very nice Thai landlord and also has a Thai restaurant on the premises.  There are also a lot of Thai furnishings and ornamentation inside the old pub.  Somehow it works!  

Unfortunately the restaurant is closed on Monday.  

Tomorrow we head to London, the UK tour is nearly over :-(

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