A Holiday in Hampshire - Part 2

We had lots of fun during our Hampshire holiday.

We explored the hut while Polar and Grizzly were out for walks, we bounced on the bed, we played in the fields and woods and we went on visits with our human guardians.

There was a huge field of sweetcorn opposite the huts where we liked to play hide-and-seek, although we were good bears and didn't eat the corn.

We went to visit Grandad Polar too, but our favourite day out was our visit to Grizzly's grandcubs.  Their bears came to meet us, and Kenneth the koala was delighted to find that there was already a smaller koala living there, who would be his best friend.

While the humans went to play football, we finished building a complicated railway system with the Brio train tracks, and tested how it worked.  We could run two trains in opposite directions without them crashing, if we started them in just the right positions!

Everything was ready when the cubs came home.  The football game had ended with both teams scoring seven goals, with the cubs - who were the team captains - scoring almost all of them.

Grizzly had brought them a new train for their brio track which has lights on the front and appears to make real steam!  We thought this was marvellous and watched it running round and round until it was dinner time.

When we woke up on our last morning at the hut we were slightly sad that our holiday was over, but also excited, because we were going to see our friend Gecko and the Berkshire Bears on the way home.

But we had a great surprise when we looked out of the window - there was a hare right outside the door, eating the dandelions growing in the path!

"Don't run away until Polar has taken your picture!" called Hanley Bear, and the hare did as we asked!

We were able to tell the Berkshire Bears all about it and about our other adventures.

Polar and Grizzly drove us home along some different 'A' roads, and a few 'B' roads, traveling through the Berkshire Downs and the Cotswolds.  From our Bear Bag, we watched the crops being harvested and we saw hill forts and the Uffington White Horse, carved out of the chalk by the people who lived here thousands of years ago, when there were still wild bears in Britain.

We all fell asleep before we got home, and woke up the next morning back in our Bear Basket in Staffordshire.  We all love having adventures but it is nice to be back in familiar places too.