A NEW FOREST AMBLE

Long-time caravanner Colin Burdett loves to explore in the UK and further afield

FOR A LONG weekend away, we wanted to return to the New Forest in Hampshire, but stay somewhere we hadn’t been before.

We finally settled on the Caravan and Motorhome Club’s Centenary site near Bransgore, a small village four or five miles to the north-east of Christchurch. Amazingly for a British summer, the sun actually shone for the whole of our stay!

Once we had set up (and dusted down the barbecue), we went off to explore the local area and stock up for the next few days. We discovered a large supermarket on the outskirts of Christchurch and made our purchases before heading back to the van to soak up the pleasant late-afternoon sunshine.

This is quite a large site, but has been thoughtfully split up into several different sections, with names such as Spitfire, Mosquito and Mustang – very apt, as the site is in the middle of a former WWII airfield.

Holmsley Airfield opened