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What a cute church! That wedding couple sure ended up with a beautiful day for a wedding.
Very odd that they don't have fences for the horses or the cows, yikes. I hope all the animals are always ok.
That's how it's always been there. I think they like to try and keep things natural - hence the lower speed limit, plus if you drive through there, you know there's a chance animals will be wandering around on the roads...
Saturday 3 May – part ten: wow, now that’s what I call a big room!
We set off again, and soon we were coming into Lyndhurst, which was a lovely place, although with a horrible one way system that took you the whole way around the town. We both said that’s probably a complete nightmare in the peak holiday season…
Then we were back into country lanes for a while…
… before we got back on the main roads again. Soon we were getting close to the place where we’d be spending the night, and once again, it was all rural….
This wall went on for literally miles, and obviously there was once a grand house here, but we looked it up on Google Maps and all there seems to be now is woodland.
We found our bed and breakfast place easily enough…
…. and were greeted by the owners Celia and Richard. The room we’d got was a superior one, and my goodness, it was massive!
The views out through our windows…
The view out to the back… … and the view out to the front..
Once we’d got ourselves settled, we headed downstairs….
They’d insisted on making tea for us, and it came with a shortbread and fruit cake slice for each of us. I didn’t take my camera down with me so I’m afraid there aren’t any photos of that, but I can assure you it was very nice.
Once we were done eating (only just over an hour and a half before we were booked to have dinner! ), we headed up to the room for some down time, and so I could catch up on trip report writing.
We had dinner booked at World’s End in Almer, which was about a mile away, at 7:00pm, so we headed out a few minutes before our reservation time. When we arrived, it was a beautiful place.
I was very glad we’d booked, as the car park was busy, and it was busy inside. The big group behind us were worried they wouldn’t get in because they hadn’t booked. I have no idea if they did or not, but we didn’t see them again. It was a beautiful place…
We were taken through to our table, which was marked by this…
It was right by the window, which had a lovely view outside.
Through the fire exit, we could see out towards the back, and eventually I spotted some movement outside, so had to go out and get some photos of what caused the movement!
Look at the two to the right of the shot butting heads – these guys were doing this sort of thing for much of the evening every time we looked out. I wasn’t sure if it was fun or not…
It was so neat to be able to watch them as the evening wore on.
The menu was exceptionally expansive. Not only did we have the standard menu in front of us, which probably had maybe 10 to 15 choices on it for entrees, there were also more choices on the specials board. I was really impressed by that, as usually you don’t get that much choice. Even better, there was lots of choice for vegetarians, and here I don’t just mean me, in terms of fish items. I reckon there were four or five vegetarian entrees, more than they had fish entrees. Now there’s a rarity, and a very pleasant change!
After contemplating the menu for some time, we finally make a decision. I went for the Tanglefoot Fondue, hot cheese and Badger Tanglewood beer fondue with fresh crudities and focaccia croutons. I did check with our server how heavy it was, as I really wasn’t that hungry, but she assured me it would be fine, and she was spot on. It was nice and light, and the vegetables went with it really well.
Mark went for the hand crumbed mushrooms, mushrooms tossed in garlic and chilli and crumbs and deep fried until crisp, served with roasted garlic mayonnaise.
For entrée, even with all the choices I had, my eye immediately caught the sweet potato and red pepper burger, and I knew I had to try that, as it sounded wonderful. It’s an oven baked burger served with baby gem lettuce, sliced tomato, Monterey Jack cheese, tomato chutney and mayonnaise, served in a toasted bun with chips and a seasonal “slaw”. This is what turned up – I really liked the presentation of the dish:
I absolutely loved this. The flavours were just as good and rich as I’d hoped for, and all in all, it was a superb dish.
Mark went for the glazed rump steak, a British 8oz rump steak glazed with Badger Blandford Flyer beer and smoky BBQ sauce, with skin-on French fries, and he seemed to enjoy it very much.
Despite how much we’d eaten earlier on in the day, the dessert menu was still able to tempt us, but only because they had what were described as “mini puds”. Here’s what they looked like when they came out:
I had the lemon meringue mess, with lemon curd, meringue and whipped cream, and the strawberry panna cotta, fresh strawberry compote and set vanilla cream, while Mark had the Skinny Mini, low fat Greek yoghurt, banana and crumbled walnuts, and almonds and the raspberry cheesecake, crunchy biscuit base, fresh raspberries, and smooth cheesecake topping. I know Mark wasn’t overly keen on the Skinny Mini, but everything else got a big thumbs up from both of us!
All in all, it was a superb food. I couldn’t fault any of the food I had, although it was a long meal. We arrived at 7:00pm, and left just after 9:00pm, but then again, sometimes you don’t mind staying a long time if the food’s good and it certainly was here. I can see why it’s had so many rave reviews on TripAdvisor.
The staff were very friendly. We met the owner, who was from Yorkshire, and happily chatted away to us, and as we left, told us to come back if we were ever in this part of the country again, and we certainly would.
Our bill came to £55 ($88), which included two glasses of wine for me, and that’s pretty standard for whenever we eat out over here. Considering the quality of food we got for that price, I thought that was good value.
World’s End
Appetiser 9 8½
Entrée 9½ 9½
Dessert 9 9
Service 8½ 8½
Atmosphere 9 9
Value for money 9 9
Average score: 8.96
We headed back to the B&B and raved about how good our meal was at World’s End when we saw Celia and Richard, as they’d been a bit non-committal earlier when we’d said where we were going, and I had feared that it might not be that great. Well, sure enough, they told us that it had had a few teething problems recently, as it had changed hands. Hopefully, after our glowing report about the place, they’ll be able to recommend it in the future.
We arranged for breakfast tomorrow at 8:30am, and then headed up to our room and off to bed.
The weather today was warm and sunny with temperatures in the high 50s. The best thing today was our dinner at World’s End. The worst thing today was Winchester Cathedral being closed to visitors. Today we tried going to Beaulieu And the result was we both really enjoyed it. The most magical moment today was seeing the cows and the ponies in the New Forest.
Cows!!
The B&B looks very nice. And dinner sounded wonderful! Glad you were able to score a reservation there. Your burger sounds very interesting!
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I really am enjoying this TR. I have been on that monorail and to that museum a couple of times as a young girl. My dad was really into cars and my Grandpop was into SteamEngines. My parents were actually married at Beaulieu Abbey and their reception was held at the Montague Arms.
Again great photos of the New Forest ... Did you manage to get any photos of donkeys? I love how going into the villages or driveways to homes they have the grates that the animals know not to cross.
That B & B looks so inviting and so home like! Just love all the photos of the flowers and trees blooming for the Spring! I have a few dogwoods I can see from my deck at my condo and they just lost their blossoms over the last few days! Looked so beautiful, but now the grass does.
Seems like a great dinner at World's End! The photos of the interior seem to resemble a pub more than a restaurant from the tables and the paneling. Glad you had a great meal near and they did so well on the presentation of the cuisine!
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I really am enjoying this TR. I have been on that monorail and to that museum a couple of times as a young girl. My dad was really into cars and my Grandpop was into SteamEngines. My parents were actually married at Beaulieu Abbey and their reception was held at the Montague Arms.
Oh wow, that is so neat and I'm so glad I could bring back some memories for you!
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Again great photos of the New Forest ... Did you manage to get any photos of donkeys?
I didn't - darn it, if there are donkeys there, I'll have to go back to look for them!
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I love how going into the villages or driveways to homes they have the grates that the animals know not to cross.
I didn't realise they had those, but now you say that, it makes perfect sense.
It was very inviting and the owners were so friendly. I certainly wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone visiting that part of the country.
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Just love all the photos of the flowers and trees blooming for the Spring! I have a few dogwoods I can see from my deck at my condo and they just lost their blossoms over the last few days! Looked so beautiful, but now the grass does.
Seems like a great dinner at World's End! The photos of the interior seem to resemble a pub more than a restaurant from the tables and the paneling. Glad you had a great meal near and they did so well on the presentation of the cuisine!
I thought it was very pub like and I suspect that's how it started out and they probably then diversified into being a restaurant, but that's only my guess.
Sunday 4 May – part one: watching the local wildlife!
Although the bed was comfortable, I didn’t sleep as well as I would’ve liked. I heard the clock downstairs strike 4:00am, 5:00am (I think at least I slept a lot between those times though), then 6:00am (I slept a lot less between those times…) and then finally I woke up around 7:15am. We were both suffering a bit this morning, and struggling to breathe. Mine was to do with hayfever (well, we are surrounded by fields here) and Mark’s was to do with a bit too much dairy yesterday…
This was the view that greeted us outside:
We headed down for breakfast at 8:30am, and this was waiting for us…
Celia then presented us with this, which I was very impressed with, as I’m not allergic to any of the fruits pictured! It really was serendipity, as she had no idea about my allergy.
There’s also a breakfast menu, and Mark went for the Bassetts breakfast, made up of sausage, bacon, egg, mushrooms and tomatoes.
They do a veggie version, but with Quorn sausages and as I’m violently allergic to Quorn, (I know so many allergies! ) that wasn’t an option for me. Celia did tell me she had some other veggie sausages, but I’d already made my mind up that I was going for something else off the menu – smoked salmon with scrambled eggs.
We also got toast, which was from freshly made bread last night, as Celia told us she was making it when we got back, and jams and marmalades, also freshly made. I asked her what fruits were in them, and she listed them out, explaining she knew because she’d made them all herself. Very impressive!
While we were getting ready to head out for the day, Mark spotted a bunny rabbit outside, and as we watched, it turned out there were two of them. I was very impressed with my camera – look what it managed to capture of their antics on maximum zoom!
We headed out at around 9:45am, as Google had told us it would take about half an hour to get to the tank museum, and Celia reckoned more like 15 minutes. The truth, it turned out, was somewhere in between, as we got there between 10:05 and 10:10am.
On the way, we saw some lovely scenery…
We knew we were getting close to the tank museum, when we started to see signs like this…
I liked the one that restricted tanks to 10 miles an hour, then we saw another one a bit further along that said they could do the national speed limit, which for the road we were on, was 60 miles an hour! Sadly I didn’t manage to get shots of that, but I got a very bad photo of the 10 mile an hour sign…
Soon we were seeing the barracks, as this area is still very much used by the army…
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We both said that’s probably a complete nightmare in the peak holiday season… 
I didn’t take my camera down with me 
so I’m afraid there aren’t any photos of that, but I can assure you it was very nice. 
), we headed up to the room for some down time, and so I could catch up on trip report writing. 
Dinner looked delicious! 
Just love all the photos of the flowers and trees blooming for the Spring! I have a few dogwoods I can see from my deck at my condo and they just lost their blossoms over the last few days! 
Glad you had a great meal near and they did so well on the presentation of the cuisine! 
I didn't - darn it, if there are donkeys there, I'll have to go back to look for them! 
It really was serendipity, as she had no idea about my allergy. 
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