As I pack away the tent for the last time this week the sun is out, there is birdsong on the air and it seems I have awoken to the perfect day, pure and incorruptible. How I would come to rue these foolish sentiments as dark deeds sullied the hours to come… Senseless Death I’m [...]
Archive for the ‘Dorset 2010’ Category
Dark Deeds In Deepest Dorset
Posted in Dorset 2010, Posts, tagged Bankes Arms, Fort Henry, Isle Of Wight, Karl Howman, Old Harry, paddlesurfing, Poole Harbour, Shell Beach, Studland, Swanage on 16 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Evening Glory
Posted in Dorset 2010, Posts, tagged Death by cow, Dorset, Sebastian Faulks, Square And Compass, Swanage, Worth Matravers on 14 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The MET office lied again. By the time I’m repitched at a Swanage campsite (this one thankfully has grass instead of stone) the threat of rain has departed. There’s another 10 mile walk I had in mind but is it too late to embark at 3pm? Nah. My ambivalence stems from the knowledge that today’s [...]
Sub Lyme
Posted in Dorset 2010, Posts, tagged Dorset, lyme regis, town mill bakery, Uplyme on 13 July 2010 | 2 Comments »
No walk Tuesday –my body refused to do hills. Evidently Monday’s journey was too much too soon. Here are some photos of Lyme Regis instead, a wonderful Devonian seaside town that I’m surprised to discover is in a different county to my campsite up the hill in Uplyme (Dorset). Lyme has a long departed history [...]
Lyme to West Bay
Posted in Dorset 2010, Posts, tagged Charmouth, Dorset, lyme regis, Seatown, West Bay on 12 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last month I set about writing a daily World Cup journal. On Sunday (world cup final day) I drove south to Dorset to spend a week walking and not blogging. After one day I find myself writing this blog entry and contemplating a week that may hold no further walking due to weather [...]
