Blogs from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

So our hotel room included breakfast this morning, or we could order off the menu. The breakfast menu as fresh fruit, bread, yogurt, meats and cheeses, croissants, muffins, coffee and tea. It was all excellent Immediately following breakfast we went out walking along the beach and edge of town. Aside from the wind, you couldn’t ask for more perfect weather. This is an interesting seaside town. I imagine it is overrun with visitors in the summer. One section of the beach has pebbles, then you find the sand. If you walk far enough you find stones instead of sand or pebbles. Along all the beaches are little houses that you rent for cabanas. Some people had theirs open and were setting up chairs, or having their morning coffee or tea. We were truly surprised to see ... read more

Leaving behind the beauty of Lulworth Cove we keep heading west towards Cornwall and stop in the seaside town of Lyme Regis. The town is your typical seaside town, it even has the buntings zig zagging the high street! We first strolled down to the seafront which was mostly a rock plateau. We followed the foot path along the waters edge until we reached the start of the high street and the pebbled beach. The town is pleasant and has many bakeries, ice cream parlours, pubs and gift shops, its what you expect from a British seaside resort town. We looped our away around the quaint back streets, one of which was very pretty with a little stream running parallel to the lane we walked up. Eventually our wanderings brought us back to our motor home ... read more

This weekend two of my house mates and I went to Lyme Regis. Emily, Ali and I had such a good time exploring Lyme. Jane Austen's novel, Persuasion, is partial based in Lyme. We loved going to the Cobb and walking though we almost got blown off the top. Getting to Lyme was very crazy. We went to Salisbury but then when we got onto the next train we did not know that the first 3 cars split off and went where we wanted to go while the back cars went back towards Bath. So we ended up on the wrong train and had to get off at this little town called Warminster. It was out in the middle of no where and the next train coming through was around 10:15 or so but the train ... read more