Countryside adventures!

Alongside a lot of wedding planning, catching up with friends and helping to get ready for Kat’s wedding, whilst we have been back home we have thankfully managed to keep a little bit of time free for some countryside adventures.

By the breezy seaside 

There were walks around the millpond to make the most of the sunshine and lovely weather (and to try out the ginger ice-cream at Flintstones café at the other end of the millpond) and drives through the beautiful colourful fields of the countryside while we made our way back and forth between little country villages.

In the garden at The Harrow

Once on my favourite little trips was to a tiny pub called The Harrow, nestled on the outskirts of Petersfield and housed in a ridiculously twee building. The pub area itself was a traditional old “public house” set up. You arrive in what must have originally been the dinning room, which is big enough for around three small round tables. The bar itself is behind a barn style door, and once you are at the hatch you can see that all their local beer is being pulled straight out of the keg, with “Harry’s local Perry” and “Marys Fruit Wines” being advertised on hand-written notes alongside the menu of sandwiches, soups and plates of ploughmans.

Just a simple ploughmans 

We had the most fabulous lunch of cheddar cheese ploughmans and local brewed beer in a fabulous overgrown country garden, surrounded by sweet peas and overgrown flowers and bushes. You can’t beat England in the summertime!