Woke to glimpses of blue sky through grey clouds, no rain might be a sign of a good day to walk around Dorchester. Just a short walk to the north of the New Forest site is a memorial to the New Forest Airfields and parts of the original runway still exist in the nearby field. If we had of gone to the Camping and Caravanning Site on the other side of A35 in Holmsley the site has kept the roads and runway as part of their roads and camping pitches.

Had a good run through the New Forest National Park lots of tall trees, firs and dense vegetation till we turned onto the A31 motorway to Ringwood views of villages, fields, lots of greenery and roundabouts no lights. Glimpses of Hardwood Park through large brick arches with a deer statue on top and a high brick fence stretching for miles we though this might be a deer farm.

Rolling rich green hillsides for miles and small villages till we reached the vibrant town of Dorchester the county town of Dorset. If we had the internet last night we would have been able to research Dorchester and would have stayed a night there to better explore the historical town. The New Forest Caravan site had no pamphlets of towns to look at so we missed a lovely town, as we booked the Caravan and Motorhome Woodfarm site further ahead at Charmouth near Lyme Regis where we wanted to be next.

The diesel is expense £1.12 a litre £86.40 to fill the tank in Canterbury and refilled at Dorchester £1.189 a litre £78.41 to top up as we had just under a quarter of a tank so we are getting a lot of mileage out of the diesel.

Parking is a pain in the UK you waste so much time looking for carparks or verge parking to accommodate a motorhome and it is nearly always £1.00 an hour. If we had two bikes instead of one we could free park on the outskirts and ride into the towns.

With time not really on our side and with the town map from the Tourist Information Centre we did a part walk along the tree-lined Roman Wall that once surrounded Durnovaria (Dorchester). It was originally 2.5m thick and stood 6m high and in the 18^th century the Roman Town Boundary was replaced by tree-lined walks. The walk took us to the ruins of a roman Town House the finest example of its kind in Britain. The main section is a protected display of mosaics and the hypocausts which provide heating below the floor and in the walls. The Romans were certainly advanced for their time.



Mainly walked done the main High Street where the churches, museums, pubs and shops were, small lanes running off the street and there were stalls in the Pedestrian Way must be Market Day.



The black clouds are looming nearly 4pm and the traffic is getting busy, time to skirt around the town and head for the caravan site. Good run on the A35 motorway the traffic is coming in the other directions. The views from Dorchester to Bridport are absolutely stunning a patchwork of colours over the hillside to the ocean in the distance. Miles of dairy, cattle, sheep and different grain farms, quaint thatched little houses and villages.

The drive to Charmouth didn't take that long the Satnav is behaving but Richard did miss the very sharp turn off at the roundabout as the site is just off the roundabout next to the motorway. The tree and shrub boundary blocks out the traffic noise.



The Woodfarm site is quite large we have views right across the rolling hills and farms and right next to our pitch is the playground, tennis court and we look over to the café, indoor swimming pool and other buildings. There is even a lake to go fishing. We were going for a walk but the sky decided to open and the weather changed, so as usual time to retire to the motorhome and check the internet.