This was our third day in Hardy's Wessex:
- The first day had mainly involved travelling from Warsaw to Dorchester (with an unscheduled stop at Bradford-on-Avon on the Bristol-Weymouth train line)
- During the second day, we'd mainly visited places relating to both 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (up near Hardy's birthplace of Higher Bockhampton and in Puddletown) and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' (all round Dorchester town centre)
- On the third day, we'd moved onto Wool (of great Tess significance, of course).
After we'd set up camp at Wool, we decided to catch the last bus to Lulworth Cove, knowing that we'd have a five-mile walk back, but such was the attraction of Lulworth Cove.
Arriving at Lulworth Cove at about 5.30pm on a Saturday evening, we were greeted by the wonderful thatched roof building below:
And one of Hardy's poems on a pub wall:
Was nice to see that the good folk at Lulworth Cove had ice-cream for dogs if any dogs fancied one:
Finally, after having a rather expensive pastie and chips (not bad, but nothing special), we were ready to explore not only Lulworth Cove, but also Durdle Door . . .
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