Ive finally got round to updating our travels again. This means these will be from earlier travels and out of date on the menu.
Our first holiday away since our European trip and after the dreaded covid outbreak. Having booked a week away with Jason and the dogs we stayed in the lovely town of Portland. Out on a causeway from Weymouth and up on what seemed like a massive mountain was our home for the week. The cottage we booked a two minute walk to the coastal path. We must have walked all of Portland by the time we left seven days later. Each day taking a different route to explore the island. On our way each day we passed the gorgeous St Georges church, its gravestones and a bomb crater. Up above the beach is a quarry with stone sculptures carved into animals, chairs and patterns. A great place for dog walking and exploring. It leads out onto the coastal path and along to a stone formation called the circle of stones. Before you head down the road into the town below. You pass the olympic rings up on the hill out overlooking the causeway and Chesil beach below. A rocky beach below the dogs enjoyed many a swim in the hot weather. On one of our many days out exploring the coastal path we walked from Southwell to Church ope cove, with the ruins of Rufus castle. Surprised to find rock climbers scaling the cliffs above. Typical Craddock style we got lost and even had to backtrack as we got stuck at the harbour, fenced off. We had to ask a dog walker for help. A day trip to Weymouth, with it’s stunning emerald green waters in the harbour. It was so hot the poor dogs we were constantly trying to find a place to get them in the water, and off the boiling footpath of the Rodwell trail. Calamari and whitebait for lunch just off the beach, before our walk back. Our walks took us all the way out to Portland bill lighthouse on the island and along the coastal path home one day. To say we walked round the whole island was not an understatement. Another day trip to Dorset and the famous Durdles door. Well this did not disappoint, we were there early to avoid the crowds. Getting photos without a hundred people in them. Walking up above the chalky white cliffs above, another coastal path with stunning views. Passing Man of war beach, we walked to the nearby Lulworth cove and the stairhole. A mass of tourists here, you can see why people make the day trip out. Before leaving Dorset & Portland we had to stop and get some fresh Dorset seafood. Scallops, crayfish and fresh gurnard, topped off with a glass of Ned New Zealand wine. Jason wanted to go fossil hunting on the way home since we were on the Jurassic coast, not that we saw any Jurassic bones but we did see some fossils in the broken rocks of Lyme Regis beach.
Wanderlust Craddocks 