Of course, while visiting Lulworth Cove, we couldn't resist the trek to Durdle Door.
This trek was scenic but more arduous than I'd imagined.
But it was well worth the trouble for all the great views along the way (I could easily picture the land-carriers picking up their barrels of brandy on the beach below):
Have just read that Thomas Hardy's friend, Arthur Moule, who served as a missionary in China for many years, wrote some lines about Durdle Door in a book of poetry he wrote called 'Songs of heaven and home, written in a foreign land'.
As a prominent agnostic, Hardy didn't half have a lot of clergymen friends.
Must say that the descent back towards Lulworth Cove was much more pleasant than the earlier climb away from it:
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