It’s day three of Garry’s trip to the New Forest. Garry spent the previous day hanging around camp, so there was very little filming apart from a few short videos posted on his social media channels. But it’s time to get moving again. One day, sitting around camp is more than enough for Garry.
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But morning all well look at that it’s a lovely day today um bit fresh but that’s fine don’t mind that um yeah um well I think we well I think we just going to uh stay put for the day um I’m undecided about France now um looking at how wet everywhere is and
Well I think it’s probably still a little bit early for a lot of campsites to open um I might have a little uh look today and then decide but yeah say lovely out there today um probably end up going for a little ride somewhere but hey we’ll see how the day goes on
Right I shall have my cup of coffee and well I shall speak to you all later goodbye oh well we’ve come out on a little uh walk uh we’ve left the bike at the uh tent um oh god um every that I might not have the right Footwear on here God
Look God how wet everywhere oh slim me look yeah well as you can see it’s very um wet everywhere say I might not have come out in the um best Footwear God there well this is getting oh we’re not going to get out of here at this right Look Oh shoot that’s not bloody good look right this was definitely a bad idea yeah but hey ho right let’s what are we going to do Flipping NE look right hold on look look at the state of them right that’s it I think we’ll stick to the
Um um road path track whatever you wish to call it right that’ll do oh well we’re still in the New Forest at the moment um I forget where I finished off yesterday um I don’t know whether any of you watched um any of my shorts um think that’s all the filming I really
Done yesterday um basically we stayed around campsite um there were plenty of showers coming in so yeah we didn’t Venture far um we didn’t even go on the the bike we just had a few walks around Sight which is quite Pleasant um I was well I think I
Still am to be honest um going to go home today um everywhere is just so wet and well it’s still quite early in the season I’m not too sure where we’ll be open um maybe I’ll have a good think about it on the way home but yeah I say
Well I’ll turn you around it’s it’s a lovely day look see my nice BS I look out on um not seen that many ponies um coming through coming through the campsite normally you see loads of them but don’t know I’ve seen them over the I think well might have filmed that yesterday
Over on the there’s a big Meadow over that there way so there were plenty on there but not seing any come through the campsite but we should maybe we’ll see some before we pack up right I must get going clear up we’re not doing very well
We sto to take a few photos of a bird he right I’m going I’ll speak to you all later goodbye well as you can see we’ve left um campsite and there’s a nice um Tailwind today it should be quite a fast ride home and I think we’re going to
Just I was going to go my uh normal way well I keep thinking it’s a different way but it isn’t we go it all the time um via bu and round sort of marchwood and eling Tide so I think we’ll give that one a Miss on this time and for a
Change I think we well if I remember rightly we’ll go to uh buy and then head back up to Lindhurst and then get back on the sort of main road or the main cycle route back through to um Southampton as I say we we seem to do
That other route all the time and I keep thinking it’s different but it isn’t um so the people well group of lands next to me or men I should say um they come from Chichester which is just down the road from me which is quite
Funny um they leave in today same as I think probably a lot of people will well shall we I think I’ll leave you this way cuz that sun is quite bright not unom in I will turn you around cuz we’re going under the bridge and well it does flood oh remember to
Stop hopefully it won’t be fed although it does say so I do I do know this road get some closed off and it probably was closed off uh couple of weeks ago perhaps of all the rain Banks been washed away there well talk about all the rain we’ve
Had and well there’s Lakes where there never was a lake why me look at that we need more of this sun and wind that will soon dry everything out good Lord I wonder the ponies are all a bit elusive probably don’t know where to go with all these wet with all these ponds
Lakes whatever you wish to call them I mean like yesterday when I went out for a walk um well I got stuck in the mud um I think I might have filmed it I can’t remember um but yeah what at one point I put my
Stick in and well it it sunk right down so that wasn’t good I’m going to stop take a picture of that I like that maybe coming this way wasn’t quite such a good idea we’re heading into the wind now there’s me saying I haven’t been this way for a while
Um I don’t think it was that long ago or it might be longer than I think um it was a a load of pigs up here can’t remember when it was but I say there was a load of pigs but as I said there’s no rush to get home so we just as
Well Pratt around in the New Forest for a bit who knows when we’ll get down there next cuz we got Easter coming up don’t know whether it’s next weekend I think it is actually so I don’t think we’ll be coming anywhere near the New Forest then look at all the
Donkeys um they seem to gather together it make you have a good old scratch more donkeys over there I me there’s loads of them here hello you you he always looks a scruffy but then so do I so you better not say too much look there a little little baby one maybe hello
You there you go that’s what I was saying about um uh some of the trees there’s some more there that have been blown over I suppose thinking about it we have had actually quite a few um storms since the last time we came here there’s that
Um boat washed up near um Portsmouth um storm Hank I think that one was was it so yeah I shouldn’t really be surprised at the amount of trees blown over the old Sun seems to have disappeared we’re not going to go to Lind Hurst we’re going to turn right here
Um so we probably will end up going uh through eling tide not that it matters I’m quite a few joggers today along with a normal Lyra Brigade oh it’s better get that wind behind us I don’t think it forecast rain today in fact if I remember I think it
Was supposed to be cloudy anyway so that sun first thing was a bit of a bonus oh look at that that’s older than me well this could be rather annoying um well normally we turn right [Applause] yeah um looks oh no maybe there is a way across that’s good there is a route
Through blood diversions might not be don’t remember which way um next think we want to go up there that’s for sure he down there that’s where we cycled when we came of course there’s only one TN it’s all right I was thinking there was two tunnels but there
Isn’t well in theory we should have a nice uh wind assisted easy ride home I’m just blowing I think I saw directly from from the West so let’s hope so well i’ be lying if I said this was wasn’t hard it’s quite easy with a nice tail wind coming up
Here see quicker for him um I’m thinking I might go back the um uh cycle route way and get the Wes Ferry the little pink one I’m sure it’ll be going today it’s hot when that sun comes out F me might be taking the layer off maybe
This wasn’t such a good idea after all it’s rather busy thank you I was watching a some oh TV program the other week which was filmed here yeah can’t for the life of me think what it was um I think place was called some I you yeah um answers on a postcard if
Anybody remembers it and if I don’t if I do remember it I’ll put it at the bottom of the screen yeah oh it’s annoying me now that’ll bug me all the way home Silent Witness I think so I have to have a look when I get home sure it
Was well that was quick and easy straight on the pink fer and across that’s what we like I’m I speaking to him he said that they’re working all the time again now so something to bear in mind we won’t have to go around the houses and come straight across on the
Ferry well we’ve made it home well near enough we’ only just got to go up through the village lovely evening nice to see the Sun out and somebody’s cleared all the stones away Along the prom that’s good well as I say we’ve only got to go
Through the village now um I’ll put the mileage at the bottom I don’t even know whether I mentioned it when I went down to the New Forest but hey whatever I’ll put it on the bottom if we um did it I’m thinking in my head
But we all know what that um means um I’m thinking I’m going to book the ferry to France um for tomorrow now uh I don’t well I do see loads of reasons to not do it but I’m only going to sit at home if I don’t unbook it
So well that’s the plan in my head at the moment we shall see as the evening goes on you’re right there’s a church is he I know what we going to have uper tonight we ain’t got anything at home and we haven’t brought anything might have to be a
Curry but I’m going well hopefully I shall speak to you all tomorrow goodbye