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just a really beautiful place… filled with arseholes.
This should be the New Forest strapline tbh. I've never ridden in the New Forest without someone being a twat. I only live 30 miles away but gi enterally give it a wide berth.
Did you make it to The Woods? Lovely people there and a great cafe.
Burley cider pantry is also fantastic.
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Day 2
Today we cycled to lymington
It’s not far from where we’re staying but Komoot sent us down a mile long section which can only be described as “a bog” , we had to hike it through this and my partner got absalutely destroyed by stinging nettles as I had Whack us through some dense holly due to degradation of the trail.
Making it to lymington we went to the pub and got a nice pint and an antihistamine (great combo).
I’m a coeliac and dairy intolerant and wanted chips, after my partner asked the barman if they did food and got a resounding no but a 3.50 pint, my partner said they’d just walk to the chippy and come back.
They arrive back 30 minutes later
Shell shocked
Apparently they asked the people for their allergy book and found the chips and the mushy peas were gluten free and ordered them, and the owner walks through and starts saying sternly to everyone they’re not, they’re covered in wheat and we fry them with the batter, to which my partner says “oh ok, but in the book they said .. can I have a refu….”. Before they get their words out lots of shouting ensues about how they won’t get one, they should have checked before they ordered , hot head stuff from the manager.. my partner just leaves and writes it off
So they go to the marks and Spencer’s, now for context before we get into this, my partner is nonbinary, often just gets seen as a bloke most days, but a butch lesbian if they’re not binding, and they’re made of strong stuff, they’ve been out since a teen, so they’re quite used to a range of reactions which they often meet with good humour or uncaring. But they hand on heart, swear down, this one lady followed them round the store sneering the whole time they were there, they double backed went back and forth, could not lose her, they were in shock, words from them “has this person never seen a lesbian before??!”.
Then they get back and need the toilet and order another drink, we still wear masks as I’m clinically extremely vulnerable and I’ve been locked inside for 2 years, it’s comfort more than anything, helps with the anxiety of enclosed spaces, but the guy at the bar just fucking lays into them, all kinds of anti masker stuff, just shite really, so much so the barman tells him to fuck off.
These events on their own would be whatever, but back to back and so close together it caused us to hightail it the fuck out of there
both of us have thick skin and are unbothered, we’ve asked the hostel to stay an extra night as there is so much to see . Two days, two weird incidents, travelling and being a trans/ gay couple in a place like this fucking sucks to be quite honest, And there is such shit bags in this Tory hell hole, it’s a real barrier to people. It’s not just trans or gay people, the stuff I’ve overheard people say casually is directed at anyone who doesn’t look like Boris or Carrie Johnson.
We took a scenic route through the forest and had a good
Laugh back, construction crew let us through a closed road, just a really beautiful place… filled with arseholes.
Cars pass wide tho