Blogs from Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Travelling with public transport in United Kingdom is hard work. Indeed, I had explored trains, buses, hired cars and tour operators to visit Durdle Door (The 'only' natural heritage of England) from Hayes Town but all were hopelessly costly, time consuming and not worth the penny.Hence, when a hiker at Little Britain Lake, Iver said she was planning to travel to Durdle Door, I accepted the offer to jump in and split the costs. I completed the 8 miles (return walk) and rushed to ASDA to get some sandwich fillings and prepared a picnic to compensate for the lack of refreshments at Durdle Door. It was a restless night, waking up on top of every hour since 4am with no confidence on my alarm clock. We started at 7:30 am from Stockley Park ( Hayes and ... read more

August 13, 2019 Weymouth, England Never heard of Weymouth, England? You’re not alone! England’s BEST. KEPT. SECRET! We weren’t able to dock until 11am, so we had a leisurely morning. Typical breakfast in the grand dining room (with Milica) an espresso at Barista’s with Gaia. While in the dining room the Pilot came on board (aft…we didn’t have the same front row seat this time); we went up to Barista’s and watched the Pilot guide us through the first man made harbor in the UK. The wall is deceptive as there are two main “entrances” – one…which we thought we’d enter because it looked larger and the other “larger” one. The first one is actually angled, so a large ship would have a difficult time. We both thought the ship was going to ram the wall, ... read more

Friday 14th We were visiting Christchurch for the Flowerfest and arrived in good time for the Mary Poppins inspired Flower arranging demonstration with afternoon tea at the Captain's Club hotel. The hotel overlooked the river and the little ferry boat was decorated with flowers at it ferried passengers to Chrustchurch Quay. Time for a drink before the ofher guests started to arrive, The doors opened at 3pm and a warm welcome was given as we were directed to our table, the beautiful circular tables looked wonderful with bottles of clear, blue & pink bottles/co trainers filled with amazing flowers & embellished with Mary Poppins deign ribbons. We were served with a choice of tea or coffee and each guest had a delicious 3 tiered stand containing finger sandwiches, savouries, scones and cake delights including a nod ... read more

So where to next? Didn't fancy any more narrow roads, A roads or not, if we headed West things would only get trickier. South it was then and Lyme Regis seemed a nice place to go spend a few days... Hmmm. We pulled in to LR early evening and was chuffed to see that the two main car parks had designated Motorhome spaces, hmm well they were if you’re a Euro Box. We stuck out about eight feet so they were no good for us. Being considerate RV types, we found a spot in the Cliff Top Car Park and tucked ourselves away in the corner where we didn't bother anyone, not that there was anyone to bother, the place was empty. We were on a bit of a slope but that didn't bother us, time ... read more

My memories of Durdle Door and Lulworth cove were vivid and for some reason I had it fixed in my head that both had sandy beaches, how wrong was I. We took the steep path down to Durdle Door enjoying the impressive scenery as we went. Eventually when we reached the beach we found the entire beach to be pebbles. It was quite a painful walk across the pebbles, had we known we would have brought our water shoes. We found a spot to park ourselves and gingerly walked across the stones down to the water, it was cold but crystal clear, certainly not for swimming although it didn't stop some hard core punters taking a dip. We sat for a while on the beach, surprisingly for mid week and June it was quite busy. Around ... read more