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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2014-06-25 07:56 am

The Dorset Coast

I bought a CD of local pagan folk rock group The Dolmen in a charity shop in Wareham. I had to have it because there was a picture of one of them dressed up as the horned god on the front. "Good choice," said another shopper- who knows them from the renenactment circuit. We banged our heads to them all the way through the Purbeck Hills. .

Lulworth Cove is heavily commercialized and Weymouth sands look just as they did when Constable painted them. Earlier we were at Mudeford Bay. The Dorset coast is only a hundred miles west of places we're familiar with- like Hastings and Eastbourne- but feels like it could be a thousand miles to the south.

[identity profile] puddleshark.livejournal.com 2014-06-25 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
I expect I passed you on the road!

Though I always avoid Lulworth Cove - the visitor centre is horrible, charmless and expensive.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-06-25 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I must say I wasn't expecting Lulworth Cove to be so popular.

The visitor centre didn't detain us long.

[identity profile] huskyteer.livejournal.com 2014-06-25 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Coast of my childhood and, now, coast of my biking fun!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-06-25 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all new to me.