We went to the forest.／ニューフォレストの森

Yesterday morning daddy said we would go to a mystery tour. Exciting isn’t it?

The place we arrived was a forest. I wondered if daddy would get lost...again, but then I saw he had a map in his hand so decided not to worry to much.

昨日の海に引き続き、今日はCOCOとシルキーを連れて
ニューフォレストの森を歩くことに。
地図持ってるんだから迷わないよね、ダディ？

We walked in the big forest and it was very refreshing. I breathed in and out the forest air and woof! It smelt good. You know, forest smell?

森の中はとても静かで空気もとてもきれい。
ちなみに、ニューフォレストはイギリスで数少ない、
毒蛇がいる場所の一つだそうです。

We turned some corners and carried on walking. Then we saw horses ahead of us. They are wild aren’t they daddy? I didn’t know horse language but they looked very friendly. It was interesting looking at horses but they were in the middle of lunch lunch so we left them to it, and carried on.

ときどき馬がチラホラと。誰かの持ち馬ではなくて
森で暮らしている馬なんですって。

Then we came to the road and daddy said we would walk along the road. But you know, it wasn’t a quiet road but very busy road without pavement. It is Scary, daddy!! Besides the side of the road was very bushy. I don’t do bushy, you know that daddy don’t you!! You got lost again didn’t you!! Why didn’t you take your satnav with you daddy!!

途中で雨が降ってきて、しかもやっぱり道に迷い・・・

Still daddy never admitted the fact he got lost.

Anyway we had to go along this road. Silky always wants to chase cars and it was too dangerous so mummy carried her and walked quickly so I had to follow. I was miserable...

小さな町に行くために交通の激しい道路を歩く羽目に。
そして見かけたこの動物病院。わらぶき屋根で可愛い。

Finally we came to the pavement part but now it started raining. After a while we arrived at a small town and mummy and daddy had cream tea while Silky and I had a small lunch lunch while being admired by passers by.

Now, we had to go back but I definitely didn’t walk back along the bushy dangerous road. Luckily daddy led us into the forest and we could manage to go back to the part of the forest we were in.

That was a relief.

小さな町でお昼を食べてさて帰り道。さすがに復路は迷わずに帰れましたが、
まー！雨上がりだからかナメクジがすごいすごい！
しかもデカイ！中には軽く１０ｃｍ超えるのも。

On our way back it stopped raining. Actually mummy and I were a bit worried about snakes, but what do you think we saw a lot? Slugs!! There were slugs everywhere. Some were even looked as though slug family gathering together or having afternoon catching up with neighbours. Anyway why are they so big, daddy?



とっても大きな森で、行きも帰りもほとんど人を見かけませんでした。
雨に濡れてドロドロに鳴っちゃったけど、ログの上で記念撮影。



Finally we came back to where we started from and our mystery tour finished. We had walked for 7 hours and mummy’s pedometer showed 35000 steps. Daddy calculated roughly and it means that we walked about 26 km (16 miles). Daddy, I don’t think my favourite vet Andy would be happy about it.

朝１０時から夕方５までほぼ歩きっぱなしだったウォーキング。
マミーの歩数系は３５０００歩を超えてました。ざっと２６キロ？
迷ったし、行ってしまったからには戻るしかなく、その結果こんなに歩いてしまいました。
ハー疲れた。

Silky and I were wet and dirty but mummy washed us with nice warm water. After that Silky and I felt very tired and slept like a puppy.

Swimming lesson in the sea and a mystery tour in the forest. What is next, daddy?