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Tuesday September 3rd. Wareham, Durdle Door and Lulworth

 Okay you decide. Trail on the top 2 pictures or the trail on the 3rd picture.





We chose the path in the first 2 pictures. They were very nice cows.

After our morning breakfast at our B and B, we went out to catch the local bus. While waiting we must have seen a dozen old cars (1930/1940s). Some kind of a car happening nearby??? We caught the bus in Wareham after a nice chat with a local guy at the bus station across the road and another conversation with a local couple at our stop. We got off at Durdle Door and hiked down to see the rock formation.




Stopped at the little snack shack and had a soda while chatting with a local couple. Then hiked up a bit with the cows and down the other side east to Lulworth. The
    downhill was challenging, but not nearly as hard as the uphill would have been.

Once in Lulworth we stopped for fish & chips and a short hike out to see Lulworth cove. Met a couple from New York, who now live in the UK. He works for the Embassy as a liason officer. Nice chat. 

     This is a bit like the punch bowl on our coast.
Lulworth cove behind us. Beyond the cove is a military artillery range. The red flags were flying and we could hear the military practicing. There's an active base very close by.

There is a small peninsula west of Durdle Door called Portland.  While waiting for our return bus we talked to some local workers and they stated the residents of their "Portland " have posted signs to keep their Portland weird. Borrowed? No, plagiarized. Can't get away from that either. 
                                                  Loved the rock strata
                                              The community of Lulworth
We caught the bus back to Wareham after the nice little chat with 2 "public works" guys.

                                         The quay in Wareham on the river Frome.
                                               Dedicated to WWII D day landing
Local Church of England


It was a great day in the countryside meeting locals and doing a bit of hiking. Dinner at a wonderful Italian restaurant at the quay. Then an evening walk.

Our walk was on the Wareham Saxon Wall, grant it, I have taken liberty describing it as Saxon for that is not included in the local name. But it should be as it was built by the Saxons in the 7th century as a defensive barrier against the invading vikings. So, for the evening we became Saxons protecting Wareham!! We pulled our duty on the wall and I can assure you we were extremely successful in our task.  We saw no vikings,  no threat.  We have heard faint rumors of some ancestral Vikings who invade foreign lands on vast ships.  Kings and queens surely for they sleep cosied by goose down duvets after fold down service and chocolates. Not to fear Wareham for these Norwegians and are safely locked away in a place called Sutton Terrace. 

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