{"id":1040,"date":"2015-08-29T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-08-29T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T17:04:50","slug":"new-forest-2015-day-5-cycling-to-beaulieu-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"New Forest, 2015 \u2013 Day 5, Cycling to Beaulieu Road&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tougher ride today. The trip to the &#8220;Drift Inn&#8221; for lunch was around an 8 mile cycle ride from Black Knowl and predominantly uphill through the Forest tracks and trails.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a bigger variety of animals roaming the Forest this year and more in numbers too. The traditional New Forest ponies, donkeys, Shetland ponies and Highland Cattle.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_141430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_141430-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Variety of animals\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_141430-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_141430-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_141430-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Variety of animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Timing of our arrival at the &#8220;Drift Inn&#8221; was not ideal as a coach load of seniors had just arrived 2 minutes earlier. Initial service was a nightmare as they ordered their pint glasses of tap water and then proceeded to eat their pre-packaged sandwiches in the garden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We caught the train from Beaulieu road back to Brockenhurst and then cycled back to the campsite.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_134049.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_134049-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Beaulieu Road Train Station\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_134049-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_134049-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150829_134049-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beaulieu Road Train Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The weather stayed fine and dry for the duration of the trip but the rain started just as we arrived back on site. It&#8217;s now early evening and it&#8217;s still raining posing a question mark over tonight&#8217;s BBQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tougher ride today. The trip to the &#8220;Drift Inn&#8221; for lunch was around an 8 mile cycle ride from Black Knowl and predominantly uphill through the Forest tracks and trails. There seems to be a bigger variety of animals roaming the Forest this year and more in numbers too. The traditional New Forest ponies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Forest, 2015 \u2013 Day 5, Cycling to Beaulieu Road&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-forest","category-2015-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}