Portland, UK. Jurassic Coast.

Again, we were extremely lucky today. The weather was perfect. I booked a tours to see famous Jurassic Coast. It dates back to 180 million years.
We took a shuttle from the port and met our guide.
Portland is famous for their limestone. Many buildings, including buildings of great importance were constructed with Portland stone, including The Palace of Westminster, The Tower of London and even parts of Buckingham Palace. United Nations building in NYC was also build from this stone.

We passed Chesil Beach. It is 18 miles in length, roughly 160 metres wide and rises to 12 metres in height. It is the largest beach in the UK and without it Portland really would be an island!

We continue driving toward Dorchester, stopped at the Royal Chocolate Store that supplies chocolate to the best stores and Royal Family. South of Dorchester, King Charles is building a town. It is very pleasing and very expensive to have an apartment. Tenants cannot change anything in their apartments.
We continue to Jurassic Coast to see gorgeous landscape.

We passed villages where there were only few inches between our van and the windows of very old tiny houses while driving in a narrow streets.

We stoped in Corfe town that looked like it could be a village in Disney. The town has remnants of the castle built in XI century.

We then drove to beautiful very touristy town Waymouth where we offered to stay for 1.5 hours and then proceed to the cruise ship. After walking for a while, we decided to take a cruise ship shuttle instead of waiting for our tour to go back.

We had a delicious very late lunch at Dutch Cafe on the ship and then well deserved spa.
The day ended with the show and going to bed at 9:00PM.En savoir plus