I know I should plug my adopted home of Sussex but it's an easy, if boring, run down the M25/M3/M27 and on across the New Forest to Dorset and, in particular, the Isle of Purbeck. Beautiful coastline and scenery. Lunch in the Square and Compasses in Worth Matravers and evening meal in the Scott Arms in Kingston with a view of Corfe Castle. On the way, you'll pass through Wareham which still has its Saxon earth bank walls. The Quay Inn isn't bad.

I'd better stop.