Day 9 - Fordingbridge to Salisbury

The vans have to be loaded before we can leave.

Then it's up the road to the Church of St Mary & St Philip for Sunday Mass.

Lunch is at the Cartwheel, Whitsbury, where Mike had a birthday cake for Denise.

However, Eileen was intent on her own lunch!

I remember this pub for the fact that we played "Bunnies" - I don't remember the game, but I know it involved forfeits (and was played around a table in the pub garden). From the pub we climbed up to the church...

... of St Leonard

From here it was over the top to Homington. As we descended towards the village we found this this amazing warning on the side of a barn "Notice: Any unauthorised person found on these premises will have steps taken against them which will utterly astonish them". It was almost worth trespassing to discover what this astonishing treatment was (or maybe not...)

In Homington we rested and prayed at the church,

then we were invited to the "big house" for tea on the lawn.

Just the thing before our final walk into Salisbury.

That evening we went to a rather smart pub with a waterside garden and a view of the cathedral not dissimilar from that below. Again we played Bunnies - I recall my brother Mark and my sister-in-law Clare dancing round the garden while the rest of us pretended to be a dance band, much to the amazement of the other (rather smarter) customers..