2 days off from office for our 4th yr wedding anni, we set out early on thursday-26th and drove to Bournemouth (pronounced as Bone-muth) which was approx 2 hour drive from Reading. For once I was glad we were not driving again on M4! M4 to office, to London, to Bristol, to Bath, to Stonehenge...sick of M4! A33 was good :)
Bournemouth is a beautiful city, quite unlike typical UK towns. It has a different look and feel, broad roads, many trees (a particular one reminded me of namma South end road :) ), huge houses (not the usual bricky ones), lots of space around, that too with a beach...lovely.
Our B&B was between the highstreet and few min walk to the beach...convenient. Thursday was just for relaxing, watched tv and enjoyed being a couch potato after a long time! Had really yummy singapore noodles for lunch, which reminds me...got to find the recipe! Did some shopping for Sum in M&S, had a nice cuppa then back to couch in B&B.
Later, drove down to nearby village-Poole and watched Revolutionary Road...was a sad movie :( Back to B&B at 12
Friday: Ready for the usual english bf then drove to Burley to rent a tandem cycle. Cycled for 18 miles in the New Forest!! Phew....was very tiring in the tough forest terrain, but enjoyed the experience. We chose the Deer track and could spot many of them. Took a half-way break for lunch in Minstead village pub. Altogether, took us 5 hours. Back to Bournemouth for a heavy Italian dinner with Tiramisu for dessert..yum
Saturday: Again english bf :( wanted to have something like avalakki for a change!
Decided to go to Durdle door-Jurassic beach. For this, we had to take our car on the ferry from Sandbanks to Studlands, then continue driving to Durdle door..that was cool.
Beautiful country side flew by, tempting us to take many breaks to appreciate it.
Durdle door beach is awesome, very impressive. Seems dinausaurs inhabited this coastline in the Jurassic period. The term Durdle door is coined since there are series of huge rocks extending into the atlantic ocean from the beach and is shaped like a door, due to wind and water erosion. Looks like a dinausaur which has dipped it's head into water to drink!
Had lunch in The Red Lion pub in Wareham village on our way back to Bournemouth
Sunday: Its already sunday which means back to office tommorrow...on the way back to Reading, had one of the worst monday blues ever!
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