Thursday 4th July - We've been staying in a converted yachtsman's shelter at
Baileys Hard in
Hampshire. The land slopes down to the
Beaulieu River (you can see it in the background) and our holiday home is one of eight built in woodland.
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| Our holiday home at Bailey's Hard |
Baileys Hard is within easy walking distance of
Beaulieu (up river) and
Bucklers Hard (down river, not far from where the river meets the sea.
Inside, the house is lovely. It's small, with just one double bedroom. There's a loo, a bathroom with an excellent shower, a well-equipped kitchen, and a moderate sized lounge with a TV.
Boadband and Wi-Fi is included although it was poor throughput and the Wi-Fi seemed patchy. I think it's a difficult area of the coast for networks and poorly served by broadband.
We put out some bird seed and suet the first day we were here and have been rewarded with a lot of activity and a chance to see some birds that are, for us, rather special. A
jay and two
greater spotted woodpeckers have visited us daily, and there's been an assortment of
finches and
tits as well as a
blackbird and a
nuthatch.
It was fun to live upstairs in a stilt house, it felt rather like a very well-appointed tree house.
