We’ve been to Milford in Hampshire, on the southern edge of the New Forest. The weather was good for a couple of days while we had a stroll around Lymington, sat on the beach in Milford and walked the mile-and-a-half shingle spit from Milford to Hurst Castle, out in the Solent close to the Isle of Wight. Fabulous views; don’t know why we’d never heard of it.

On the day we left, the rain returned. The view from our window: