UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Yet another hot and sunny day for us, here at Lyme Regis.  The shingle beach is a haven for fossil hunters, but Belinda brought her own with her!
 

Mike enjoyed a stroll along the famous Lyme Regis Cobb.  It was quite a drop either side, one side into the sea, the other into the harbour!

We only popped into 'The Cobb Arms' for a snack but ended up with a full meal before walking part of Dorset's South West Coast Path.
 

Mike relaxing after the climb on the South West Coast Path heading west from Lyme Regis in Dorset.  We intended to walk east to Charmouth, but the lady in the tourist information centre said the path had been eroded and was diverted mainly along roads.  That didn't appeal, so we headed west instead...

...but in this direction, far from being a 'Coast Path' it seemed to be mainly in dense woodland.  Here a problem with the Sat Nav manifested itself - it had problems receiving the satellites.  See our review of the Sat Nav unit, worts (and we found a few) and all.

Mike enjoyed his ice cream that Belinda bought him, just what was needed after that hot and sticky walk.  He's almost as messy eating it as those monkeys the other day!  Lyme Regis has a number of fossil gift shops in a maze of narrow winding streets.
 

Day 5, Mike is seen here on Chesil Beach, real Jurassic Coast country so he should feel at home!  No sooner had we arrived than we kept getting pounced on by waves of school kids on a Geography field trip asking us questions.

We walked another section of the South West Coast Path, heading west from Fleet and following a route running alongside Chesil Beach we found on a website.  This and other relevant Dorset websites are on our tourist links page.
 

A shot of the old church at Fleet, with the path to the right.  We had our picnic lunch on a bench in the church, an idyllic spot.

This part of the South West Coast Path contrasted with the section we did at Lyme Regis in that it really did follow the Dorset coast!
 

This walk proved to be the hottest yet, so, after using the Sat Nav to find our way back to the car, we stopped off at 'The Kings Arms' in Portesham on the way home for a welcome pint each!
 

Unlike previous holiday cottages, our evening meal cooking wasn't very involved, with only a microwave grill and hob available.  Here we see Mike knocking up a cheese jacket potato salad.

Hoya! Hoya!  On our last day we visited Dorchester and found the Town Crier in full cry - advertising a Pizza restaurant!
 

In Dorchester we visited the Tutankhamum Exhibition (£6) and the Dinosaur Museum (another £6).  Annoyingly, no photos were allowed at the former, but the exhibition was very interesting and had a reconstruction of the moment Tutankhamum's tomb was discovered.

Feel a Dinosaur (but you are one Mike!) and Mike's face says it all - yuck!  See the Dinosaur bite back on our great video clip of this shot!  The museum was fascinating, but uncomfortably hot inside as it had no air conditioning.

Watch out, it's behind you!  Oh, Mike, you crept up on me there!
 

Another visit to the 'The Coach and Horses' in Winterbourne Abbas for a carvery on our last night in Dorset.  Links to some of the places we visited plus other related Dorset websites are on our UK tourist links page.
You may be interested in our review of the Sat Nav unit and how we found it perform on our Dorset holiday.

We walked back to the holiday cottage (arrowed) along another stingy track rather than the road (Mike's suggestion this time), here's a shot of the farm the cottage is on showing its very rural setting in the Dorset countryside.  We had a hugely enjoyable week, blessed by some hot and sunny weather.

Think we'll go to Somerset next year...