rwin

Has anyone been to Canada:

http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=50...8835&z=14&om=1

I drove right past the turnoff last summer and decided not to go. I wish I did. Oh well.

So, is this place an option for those who don't want to wait for years?

steve666

And to think, I've waited 3 years to get to Canada and now you tell me I could have been living there all that time! And it's less than 20 miles down the road from where I live now!

hot wasabi peas

Do they have a Timmies there?

Liana

Yes, I have been there and lovely backing onto the New Forest -the horses are all around the area; it is basically a very small village area with, if I remember, one pub but nothing else.

steve666

Just like Canada the country then!

rwin

Except for the pub.

steve666

Swap the pub for a coffee franchise and there you have it...

rwin

About 10 coffee franchises.

steve666

All of them in the same ground area that a pub would take up.

Oakvillian

there's plenty of coffee shops just over in Romsey, but most of them are disguised as "ye olde tea shoppe" and will grudgingly serve you a cup of nescafe with your cucumber sandwiches if you ask really nicely. Don't think I've seen a donut emporium nearby, you'd probably need to go into Salisbury for something that metropolitan. Nice pubs nearby in Sherfield English and West Wellow, as well as at least three just up the road in Whiteparish (where my sister lives).

And of course, a stone's throw up the Salisbury Road, there's the Royal Jaipur, fine purveyor of Indian cuisine to dine in or take away.

To digress entirely, while on the subject of pubs in that little pocket of the Hants/Wilts border, Whiteparish's pubs seem well sorted - there's one that has a good dining room and in a more pretentious neighbourhood would probably be called a "gastropub," there's one with a big garden that's very family-friendly and does barbecues on holiday weekends, and then there's one for the serious drinkers that was always a bit hazy on the definition of closing time even before the licensing laws changed. That's how a proper village should be designed, IMHO!