Weymouth

Portland Bill lighthouse from the land this time.

 Dear Readers, a picture round for you of what we have been doing in lovely Weymouth over the weekend. Our friends Barbara and Peter had a car so we all drove to Portland, Chesil Beach, had a blustery cup of tea and cakes on the front at Chesil followed by fish and chips on the boat. 

I took the train on Sunday to Poole to meet up with my sister Deidre, and on the way back that evening I had a swim on the lovely sandy beach at Weymouth.

We made friends with our neighbours on Caveman who had rafted up next to us, and turns out he was a marine engineer, so Josh and Nick got on rather well over a few Sunday night beers! They were off at 5am on Monday morning for Cork, we had a lie in until 9 as we were off to Poole.

Today is Monday 4 July and we are now in Poole, but I will tell you about that in my next blog. 

Large Portland stone at the Bill.



The colourful and quirky café where we sat outside and had tea and cakes on a rather chilly and windy Chesil . The edge of Portland Bill with strange beach huts in the background.

Peter, Barbara, Josh and I on a rather windswept Chesil Beach

Colourful boats on Chesil Beach


Helter Skelter Weymouth beach

Colourful Weymouth beach

There are still Donkey rides on the beach at Weymouth

Nick and Jackie on Caveman

Next instalment our trip from Weymouth to Poole, where we are now for a couple of days.

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  1. Anonymous4 July 2022 at 14:13

    Some really lovely colourful photos! Dee xx

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