Two weeks ago at this time (Sunday afternoon) we were in our room in the Heights Hotel , Portland digesting a delicious Sunday roast at the New Inn, Easton hoping we'd have enough room for 3 course evening meal in the hotel restaurant ( we were staying on a BBD basis). We just about managed it by choosing lighter items from the menu!
This Friday to Monday break came at just the right time - Ian hadn't had a holiday since we were last in Weymouth in March and we were much in need of fresh air and a change of focus from sorting out house move.
We travelled down on Friday morning and travelling light, caught the bus to the hotel, then headed straight back out again to visit the Chesil Beach Centre halfway across the causeway to pay homage to my beloved fleet mudflats. The weather gods were with us, the sun was shining, the temperature warm. Back to the hotel to sketch from the restaurant and begin to see the sky change . It was over by the time we had dinner in the restaurant but there were some lovely residual colours.
After an excellent nights sleep and a lovely buffet breakfast overlooking Chesil we headed out on foot to explore the Kings Barrow Quarry nature reserve, literally next door. We had it pretty much to ourselves and it looked rather different to when I went in May
After coffee, pizza and florentines at Jackson's Art Gallery we head down to Chiswell, I settled down to do some sketches of the West Weares and pebbles from Chesil while having a beer at the Cove House Inn. Again, lovely weather and there were lots of people enjoying the sun, difficult to believe it was October!
We'd booked an earlier dinner back at the hotel to catch the sunset - a lot more cloud around so not quite as spectacular but lovely panoramic views of the orange glow
On Sunday to build up an appetite for our roast lunch, we ambled around the Tout Quarry sculture park. We've been several times before but always find new discoveries like this one cleverly designed to look like it's fallen from the rock face. The weather started to change on Sunday afternoon and by Monday on our return to Weymouth station it was very wet and windy. But that had its' own magic in the ' white horses' waves and the colour of the red seaweed washed up on the shore. A wonderful relaxing break, we're now packing boxes in earnest
what a gorgeous place! great photos; I can see why you had a good time
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