On the Bus to Lymington

Wednesday October 6th

Today we walked quite a long way to the garage to where Hemi is parked up waiting for the right part to arrive. We spoke to Barry and he advised us to put some new front tyres on as well which we knew would need doing soon. They had time to do it while waiting for the throttle cable to arrive so it made sense to do it. They are hopeful he will be ready to go by Friday.

From there we walked over to the big Tesco Supermarket and bought all the ingredients i needed to make the dinner tonight. I had offered to make salmon filo parcels but there was no fresh filo pastry on the shelf and none in storage so had to buy frozen which was quite a different texture than I am used to using. We walked back home and the whole round trip took just over 2 hours. The sun had come out the weather was looking lovely so we made a very quick decision to go and catch the bus the Lymington. We both love Lymington and had not been able to get there this time.


The bus stop is very handy, and we got to the stop in plenty of time. The bus was actually 20 mins late but it was a lovely ride through Milford on Sea and went over some roads we hadn’t been on before. When we got there we noticed the recession had taken its toll on the high street. There were quite a few empty shops and some had relocated from the quay area into the high street. But it was as charming as ever and we bought a Cornish pasty each and went and sat down on the quay and watched the little boats come and go and the Isle of Wight ferry coming and going. We actually carried on walking past the boat yard and onto where there was a huge salt water swimming pool that had been established in the early 1800’s and is stil there today. We had never seen it before. It is huge and still used in the summer. There were also large numbers of pleasure boats tied up in the marina. Some are very luxurious and worth millions. Lymington is one of the great places for sailing and pleasure boating. After a good walk around we walked back up to the cobbled street that leads back up to the high street and wandered up the hill back to the bus station.

We managed to catch the bus that had all the secondary school kids on so it was very lively and noisy all the way back to New Milton where the last of them finally got off. We had had a great day out and made the most of staying on in this area for longer than we had expected.

The dinner worked out okay even though I had accidentally bought smoked salmon fillets instead of plain ones. Well Zoe and Mathew liked them so I guess that is a good recommendation.

Tomorrow we are going to take two buses and get ourselves to Beaulieu which we never got to in 2007 and we have a 2 for 1 ticket to use there that got when we went to Chatsworth. There is no point in sitting around doing nothing when there are so many things right on the doorstop that we are able to get to on public transport.