Weather: fine. Distance: 8 km
It's time for another family holiday encompassing a bit of coastal path walking. We travelled down from Coventry to our holiday apartment in Weymouth
through the town of Cirencester and Warminster. We stopped off in a National Trust village on
the way and had a picnic. It was a calm journey and avoided the very long
queues that were apparently on the M5. The apartment was in a quiet suburban
street in a large house that had been divided into spacious flats.
We got settled and then I went for a short walk around
the coast at Weymouth. I caught the bus to the causeway out to Portland. The
sea front where I caught the bus was still crowded with visitors. Someone got on
the bus with a pet lizard! I wondered if lizards travel free on Weymouth busses.
The walk was initially along what appeared to be a old
railway line and then through odd bits of park land . The only wildlife I saw
on this stretch, apart from the lizard encounter ealier, was a rat! The path then went on the landward side of an old
fort before a walk up into Weymouth harbour. The yachts were in for the evening
and plenty of people were supping their gin and tonics. After crossing the
bridge I went towards the sea again close to the ferry terminal and then onto
the beach for the final part up to the apartment.
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