A Fungi Weekend
Ashurst and the Happy Cheese Ben had very kindly bought us a mushroom foraging experience Day for our Christmas present last year, and the time had finally arrived for that day. We decided to camp in The New forest for a couple of nights to make it more of a holiday. We selected the Ashhurst […]
Brighton Birthday Weekend
Lovely Sunday We headed to Brighton and went for a stroll and a game of Mölkky in the resident’s gardens with Sam and Harriet. Harriet was the best. 😀 That was followed by a roast lunch at the Reading Room restaurant. It lived up to expectations and we even had a dessert this time. After […]
The Eclipse
We were lucky enough to be in Cornwall at the time of the eclipse. Sue had booked a restaurant, Indidog (love the name) for the actual time of the eclipse. On realising this she got it moved to an hour or so later so that we could watch the start of the eclipse on Falmouth’s […]
Wickham 2026
Wednesday We set off just after lunch on Wednesday and got a very nice pitch in the steward’s field, arriving at about 1 pm. We got set up, had a little look at the farm shop, had a lovely ice cream, and then chilled by the van as it was 30° and too hot to […]
Great Estate Festival
Friday I’ll try to do the commentary on the pictures to save time and effort. Bit of a delay to creating this as I was doing a lot of work on this website Ffunga. Give it a look as I am quite pleased with it, although I did not design it! Quick Bacon Buttie Acrobatics […]
A Few Days in Cornwall
We booked to go to the Great Estate Festival at the end of May and we went a few days earlier to see Sue’s parents as her Mum had not been well. We tried to go out in the day to give people a rest. It is a bit of a way down to Cornwall, […]
Arundel Weekend
We were looking at the weather about a week ahead and were quite excited to see that the weather was looking great for this weekend. So we discussed where to go and Sue suggested Arundel (I was pushing for Tom’s field in Dorset). She persuaded me and so I did. a chat GPT search for […]
Mount Sibayak and Lake Toba
Day 4. In Brastagi; climb Mt Sibayak An early start tor our ascent of Mt Sibayak.We walk for most of the day crossing rice-fieids and up through the jungle it takes about one and a half hours to get to the base of the mountain, and then another three to the top. It is quite steep […]
Falmouth – Easter
What a great week. A fabulous Korean meal from Ben and Graduation ceremony from Sam hosted by Sanjeev Bhaskar.
The Return
So we got up and had our four-course breakfast in preparation for the long journey back to the UK. We packed up our room slowly and checked out as late as possible, as we would have a three-hour wait in the lobby for our transfer to Ho Chi Minh City airport. Interestingly, the three-letter airport […]