From North to West

I'm now in the West Country, Weymouth, Dorset. It's a combination of rolling hills, farms, cattle, yachts, harbours, history and beautiful scenery.
My Niece and her Husband live here. We visited Abbotsbury on Sunday afternoon to the hills there. I'm told it is lovely scenery from there but as the mist was low, very low and the wind howling I didn't get to see very much :) However, we had a great walk, Molly, the Golden Spaniel had a marvellous time running around, sniffing, doing what dogs do and the only one amongst us who didn't feel that her ears were being slowly frozen. the mist was being blown across the hill before our eyes and it was an amazing experience, I almost expected a tall man wearing a long black cloak to appear ahead of us. there are usually cattle and sheep up there but not so this trip - only their evidence - if you know what I mean?

There are old lookouts up there, dating back to WW2 - enemy aircraft were seen flying toward the coast I'm told and there were underground radio stations to report back to the Ministry of Defence in Portsmouth and Gosport.

This area of England is of course where the bouncing bombs were trialled and tested - There are forts along the coastline built to keep an eye on invading French many years ago too.
King Henry VIII's ship 'Mary Rose' sank in Portsmouth Harbour and is now housed in a temperature controlled tank with plans to rebuild her exactly to original plan.
Thomas Hardy the Poet lived here and the is a monument to him here too.

It's certainly a diverse and interesting place and later in the week I will visit the grave site of Laurence of Arabia and also visit a 'haunted pub'.

I'll be back xxx Von