New kind of fun

 Yesterday we had arranged to meet Lyta and Andy and take them to breakfast.  

Instead of our usual haunt, we decided to go to the Hungry Hiker at Hengistbury Head.  The breakfast was delicious and reasonably priced; and Andy even said the latte was the best he'd ever had to cure a hangover..... 

What we then discovered was that starlings like milk - who knew?! (and they're very messy too!)

Keep the sound up - apologies for the Dad joke!

Once we'd stuffed ourselves with bacon, sausage, eggs and sundry other breakfast items, we decided to take a walk over the "head."  It's changed a lot since we last went up there - more benches added with all sorts of beautiful carvings.  Different benches with a variety of carvings could be found all along the route, although some of them were occupied, so I couldn't take photos - how rude!

There was also an amazing view in every direction, out towards the Isle of Wight and over Christchurch Harbour - even over to Mudeford where we'd been the previous day.

Lyta and Andy even managed to grab a geocache at the top of the hill.  

We carried on round, eventually descending towards the spit with the beach huts.  In spite of only really just having eaten breakfast, we decided that ice cream was now an absolute requirement, so we duly forced ourselves to eat some.  The things you do for tradition!

The Bournemouth area has a scheme called "Beryl" which allows anyone with a phone to log into the app and rent a bike or scooter.  Now, bear in mind that I'm now 51 and I have never used a scooter, not even a push-along one, let alone an electric one.  OMG I've been missing so much fun!  Phil and Andy had bikes, Lyta and I scooters.  Now had we been able to get a clear run, we might have been done for speeding; but as it was, we had to dodge pedestrians.  It was just the best fun I've had in a while.  Yesterday was relaxing, this was downright hilarious.   Both were vital for my soul.