Isle of Portland
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Spent the morning finishing off a few things on the van, as the fridge that was due a month ago only arrived yesterday! Then just a short 3 hour drive to Portland Bill (the lighthouse). A fish supperWeiterlesen
Spent the morning finishing off a few things on the van, as the fridge that was due a month ago only arrived yesterday! Then just a short 3 hour drive to Portland Bill (the lighthouse). A fish supperWeiterlesen
Down from the rock that is Portland Bill you are straight onto Chesil Beach. Interesting demo about how sea creatures adjust their buoyancy but compressing the air in their shells/bodies, then aWeiterlesen
A couple of miles down the coast was Golden Cap - the highest point on the UK coast at a whopping 191 metres! Of course it had to be climbed and it turned into a nice loop walk.
Lunch was in LymeWeiterlesen
We decided we had slipped back into slow travelling mode, so drove for a couple of hours into Cornwall today. There was an obligatory stop at Trago Mills (which is is a cross between Woolies, B&Q &Weiterlesen
A bit of a gray day today which curtailed our plans a bit.
We started with lunch (pasty of course!) at Mousehole (Mousal) with the main road weaving down tiny lanes between the houses.
Then on toWeiterlesen
I got a very puzzled look from Jo when I said that, who obviously didn't know about the 7 cats/sacks either!
A lovely day dictated a long coastal wander, punctuated with ice cream and cream tea, butWeiterlesen
Heavy drizzle made today a bit of a wash out today, so we took the park and ride (train) into St Ives and whiled away the day.
Drove up to St Austell to an amazing pub which had about 20 large vansWeiterlesen
Got to Grays Farm at lunch time and immediately walked down to Eden Project, as our gig tickets got us entry for two days. Amazing to think this place was a soon to be abandoned quarry and is now theWeiterlesen
Didn't get far this morning before I spotted a bakery, then I realised we were at Carclaze, which was mentioned in our Wild book. We did a quick tour of the 'Cornwall Alpes' before we headed on ourWeiterlesen
Another gray day so we decided to visit Tintagel, the mythical conception place of King Arthur. For once it wasn't owned by National Trust, but English Heritage so we stumped up the reduced membershipWeiterlesen