Grey, wet and windy again for our drive today, around Poole with its ferry port and colourful painted apartments and on to the Isle of Port land.
Along the Juasic Coast, world heritage site, well as close as we could get on the roads. Very wet rainy day. Very Prety country roads, thick green overhang from the lush trees making an arbour overhead......not low enough to rub the roof thankfully, due to the large lorries that also travel these roads.
Through Purbeck, a tiny little village proudly announcing the pub of the year, a gorgeous tudor style, white and black beamed building with a door you would have bend down to go in.
Further on a row of chocolate box cottages with thatched roofs, next to a well trimmed hedge with a large sign saying Thatcher, wonder if he was the guy that kept the thatched roofs looking in such pristine condition.
Osminster and the white horse cut into the chalk hills, except he was a muddy brown and almost indistinguishable on such a grey day. Didn't come out in the photo.
Overcombe with its harbour full of fishing boats then down across the causeway to the Isle of Port land. This was a possible plan A for the night, the co ordinates took us up and up and the road got narrower then facing an even steeper more narrow road we decided we didn't really want to go there, so back down we went and had a look for the Portland Castle.
It was in a very eerie industrial wasteland, deserted, multi storey buildings in various states of completion or renovation, large empty buildings. It had a distinctly abandoned feel. We left to find plan B.
Dorchester, Maiden Castle, 800bc Iron Age Hillfort, the size of 500 football pitches, with multiple ramparts. Excavations revealed occupation started 5,500 years ago in the Neolithic period.
Very muddy after the rain and still gusty winds blowing, but with the shelter from the hill decided it was OK for the night.
Tony cooked his trade mark omelette.
Election day today, polls close and 10pm so won't know the result until tomorrow. Good luck Britain choose well.
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