Date: 20180714
Time: 9:35 – 14:15
Distance: 19.5 km
Stay: Tewkesbury Cottage, West Lulworth
Walk
The first part is a very relaxed walk along the Weymouth promenade. There were more than 100 Porsches lined-up here yesterday. Apparently the English Porsche club has a weekend in Weymouth.
After I leave the buildings, it also gets more hilly. After a good 8 kilometers I arrive in Osmington Mills. Here I take a short break at The Smugglers Inn with a nice cool bitter lemon.
In the meantime I am in contact with Lise via the app, who is on her way to meet me later. She had an early ferry from Calais to Dover (two hours earlier than planned) and is now driving in England with my car.
After the break, I encounter a large number of runners. Apparently there is some competition today that is partly along the Coast Path. I give them as much room as possible. It is no fun to run up and down hills with this heat.
Then, when I am busy with the highest ascent of today, a whole cloud front suddenly comes rolling up the land from the sea. I currently walk above the clouds. But if I descend later, I end up in the middle of them.
I am worried because today I will pass Durdle Door, which is the most famous scene of the Coast Path.
I walk up here over the chalk cliffs. I go down and up steeply a few more times. The runners keep coming. Then I see, very vaguely through the clouds, Durdle Door. I try to take pictures of it, but that does not work out too well. So on it goes.
After another ascent and descent I finally have a good view of Durdle Door. I should not have worried, it has to be very foggy if you can’t see Durdle Door.
In fact, it is crowded with tourists. Durdle Door is worse than Land’s End.
But I have a few nice photos and walk on quickly, between all the tourists. That goes on until Lulworth Cove. There is a huge parking lot and from there you can see all the tourists slogging up the hill…
I quickly turn to West Lulworth, a minute or 10 inland. We have a B&B there tonight and I have arranged with Lise to meat each other at the Castle Inn. West Lulworth is a small hamlet where almost all buildings have a thatched roof. Even the bus shelter has a thatched roof…
I sit on the terrace at the Castle Inn and wait until Lise arrives. Of course while enjoying a pint.
When Lise arrives, we drink something together and then we take the car to the parking lot at Durdle Door and walk there again. It would be a shame if Lise was so close and did not see it.
Then we look for our B & B and it’s time for a shower.
Weather
Sunny and warm, like the last few days. Only when I walked up to White Nothe suddenly fog started to emerge from the sea.
Lyric of the day
Today I finally came to Durdle Door and because of the clouds I chose as lyrics of the day Waiting For The Sun by The Doors:
At first flash of Eden
We race down to the sea
Standing there on freedom’s shore
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Can you feel it
Now that Spring has come
That it’s time to live in the scattered sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun
Waiting,, waiting,, waiting,, waiting, waiting,, waiting,, waiting,, waiting
Waiting for you to come along
Waiting for you to hear my song
Waiting for you to come along
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known
[scream]
Can you feel it
Now that Spring has come
That it’s time to live in the scattered sun.
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
