It was another scorcher of a day and everyone was getting into the full swing of summer with it now being school holidays. I always like walking up the Bournemouth pier, even if they do charge 50p a time. You quickly come to realise that nothing is free in this country.
After the third unsuccessful trip to open a bank account in this country (they don’t make it easy) we had lunch by the pier and then my Dad, Sheryl and I went up four hundred feet above Bournemouth in a great big helium balloon called ‘The Bournemouth Eye’. As you can see below the views were corker!
Today we took the trip to Swanage, a small seaside town 30 minutes or so from where we are in Bournemouth. From there we walked up the coastline into the Durlston Country Park and along the Purbeck Coast. We put in a solid effort of walking, three hours or more in total, but it was worth it. There weres some great views of the sea and the coastline as we walked along the cliff top.
It may excite budding Geologists out there that where we walked today is the UK’s first World Heritage site, and boasts rock formations still standing from the Jurassic age. That’s just great, but really the best part was just being able to walk along the cliff and see the sea. Oh, and the huge ‘Globe’ made of stone along the way! On the way home we stopped by Corfe Castle. They wanted a tenner to let us both go part way up the hill as the main castle area is no longer secure. Unsecure rocks? That sounds like fun to me. But we decided to give it a miss and instead go watch a restored 1930s steam train in action. All in all, a pretty fun few days.
1 comment:
Corker, a tenner..., does Sheryl sound english yet?
Post a Comment