This exciting excursion takes us to the New Forest. You’ll see the Rufus Stone commemorating the controversial death of flame haired William II.

After a two course lunch with tea/coffee at the Bluebird Restaurant in Lymington we are off to a lovely thatched village and a 13th century church guarded by an ancient yew where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, lies buried.

We drive through Lyndhurst the "Capital" of the Forest and a highlight of our afternoon is the deer enclosure and the ornamental drive at Bolderwood where huge trees including California Redwoods line our route.

Finally we stop in Beaulieu, "the Historic Heart of the New Forest". The name means beautiful and it is.