We had an early start today and caught the bus to Heathrow to pick up our hire car. Google Maps did a good job of getting us out onto the M25, then on the minor roads south.
There had been light snowfall overnight, and it was cold enough for it to stay on the ground all day (most of the day was feels like -7).
First stop was Alton and a visit to the grave of Fanny Adams. She was a young local girl who was murdered in 1867. The brutal murder, so the story goes, coincided with the introduction of tinned meat in the Royal Navy, and the sailors who did not like the new food said the tins contained the remains of "Sweet Fanny Adams" or "Sweet F.A.", an expression which survives today as slang for nothing.
We stopped at West Meon for a pub lunch, then via the back roads to Soberton, our base for the next week.
Dinner was in the pub we're staying at, The White Lion.Read more
January 5 in England ⋅ 🌙 -1 °C