The Cooking Couple Weekends Away - this time in Southampton and New Forest National Park. This is not one of our typical recipe videos. We are food lovers and like to share our way of cooking with family, friends and others but we also love travelling so we are starting a new series of videos where we will show our way of cooking typical Spanish, Taiwanese and English dishes along with the scenery of places we intend to visit in short breaks and weekends. We found Southampton and its history surprisingly interesting.
We did not know that over 700 local people died when the Titanic sank on April 15,1912 until we saw a plaque by the Canute Chambers building (shown in the video). It has lots of history and we were impressed with the wall built in around the city back in 1338.

Here is a bit of history about the wall:

"On Sunday 4 October 1338, whilst the populace of Southampton was at church, a fleet of French and Genoese pirates sailed up Southampton Water and attacked the town. They landed on the west quay which had remained unfortified at the behest of the town's merchants who wanted easy (and untaxed) access to the waterfront. The citizens seem to have been caught completely by surprise with contemporary documents recording wide scale burning, looting and rape. Southampton Castle, which managed to secure its gates it time, survived the attack but it was clear the town itself needed new defences. When Edward III visited the following year, he ordered Southampton should be enclosed by a full defensive circuit of walls. Work commenced immediately but progress was slow due to English success in the Hundreds Years War, which seemingly reduced the threat of a fresh attack, and labour shortages caused by the Black Death."

We started the video cooking a simple and quick dinner at the Airbnb then we follow by walks in Southampton City including Ocean Village (Yacht Harbour) and the Old City .

We have also visited New Forest National Park and did a couple of trails taking us through an area of the tallest trees in the U.K (Tall Trees Trail). Then we visited a little village called Beaulieu. Beaulieu is a small village located on the south eastern edge of the New Forest national park in Hampshire, England, and home to both Palace House and the British National Motor Museum. We also stopped by Lymington and take a nice stroll around the town and have a typical English pub lunch at the popular 6 Bells , a Wetherspoons pub. Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire.

We do recommend anyone in the U.K or abroad to visit this area. We really enjoyed it and we will definitely be back.