Bonne Bouche, Hamble and Yoglates, Warsash

Busy few weeks hence delay in writing blog. Went to Hamble a few weeks ago as a glorious sunny morning, so took Peggy and Jessie across the river on the infamous pink ferry. Free for dogs, £1.50 each way for adults.

 

Peggy off to catch up with Margaret and Jessie at the ferry waiting point

 

waiting for the ferry

 

 

Ferry on its way to pick us up

 

Walked the short distance up the high street to Bonne Bouche, a lovely little café with an outside decking/sitting area,

 

so no problem having the dogs with us.

Even though they weren't on the menu, the lovely owner made us American style fluffy pancakes with honey and bacon.

 

 

Lovely they were! Dogs enjoyed their bit of bacon! Recommended.

Followed by a sunny walk around the fields and shore front, though still a tad muddy in places.

Filed in Hamble in way to shore front

Stopped off for a takeaway coffee at the café on the beach on the way back to the quayside.

Jessie loyally waiting for her mum to come back with the coffees

Ferry trip back to Warsash. Dogs not that enthralled with travelling on water though!.

Not impressed

Hamble view (and pink ferry) from Warsash side

 

Not impressed by travelling on water

Polly had her rest day bless her.

Missed a Saturday breakfast as Jan has a weird obsession with fitness at the moment and was busy doing a comic relief charity danceathon,

Fareham Leisure Centre Comic Relief Danceathon (after 2 hours solid dancing!)

 

but instead we snuck out on a weekday morning to a new café/icecream parlour called Yoglates in Warsash, as we saw they had waffles on the menu.

 

New venture, nice set up inside, with more of an icecream parlour theme. But..... we got there at 1000, first in (and the only customers while we were there!). Got a coffee, 30 minutes later still waiting for the waffles with frozen yoghurt we had ordered.

Yoglate's waffles with frozen yoghurt (optional blueberries)

 

The lady did apologise after 30 mins, saying the oven was warming up. But not impressed really. Apart from paninis',it is really just ice-cream, milkshakes, etc they seem to do. So really prefer the Clocktower café or Village Bakery just up the road. But early days, so hopefully things (and the menu) will improve.

Nice walk down to the beach at Chilling during the week, gorgeous when the tide is out.

action phot!

Margaret and Jessie

Jan and Peg

 

 

Poor Polly cannot make the long walks, but manages grassy flat walks with the others.

In the car

my darling wonky polly

kisses for mum


See you next week... EXCITING NEWS ON ITS WAY :) ......x

Lu Chinos, Gosport & Jo Jo's, Fareham

We have two Saturday outings to share with you this time. The first one is Lu Chinos cafe in Gosport. We have been there before at least a year ago but we love it so decided it was time for another visit.

 

 Once again the breakfast was excellent. You need to be hungry as you get a real plateful.

Usually when we go back to a place we always try something different but sorry we enjoyed this so much last time we had to have it again. We both went for the American Breakfast.  It is a real indulgence, you get all the regular things like fried bread, bacon, sausage and eggs plus pancakes with maple syrup. Very good value at £5.95 and it includes your coffee or juice if you prefer.


A bit wicked on the hips but there you go. We do try and walk it off later.

 

On Saturday 28th February we went to Jo Jo's in Fareham.

  

 It was a late birthday treat for Jan so we thought we would do something different. The link will take you to their face book page as they don't yet have a web-site. It is an ice cream parlour with a huge range of flavours.

We both chose to have the Banoffee waffles. You get a choice of small, medium and large so we went for medium which was two waffles.

Hmmm!! Looked wonderful and tasted wonderful.  Not huge so we were glad we didn't go for small but it is nice to have the choice. The ice cream was delicious too.  Bit more walking needed! 

We've done a few walks this week, this one is up the Nature reserve at Swanwick. Right next to the air traffic control. It is a lovely walk but still very muddy so definitely wellies needed.

I'm always a little bit wary when I do this walk as very occasionally they have a few Highland cattle wandering about. They don't seem to take any notice of people but I'm a bit of a coward.

That walk would have been too much for Polly so she stayed behind and guarded her home. Jan does bring her out on some of our shorter walks so we will get more pics next week. And, she still does her hydrotherapy.  Well done Polly!! x