Off to Lyme Regis - indulge me with tips!

[Blu]

We're off to a cottage in the centre of Lyme regis for a week in the not-easter easter hol. I'm looking forward to it - consider this thread a sort of foreplay!

Will visit the fossil centre at Charmouth, walk to Seaton, walk along the undercliff, visit Bridport, maybe Burton Bradstock, what else should we do, and whch are the nice pubs, cafes and restaurants?

there's an ace little marine museum on the end of the Cobb... weird sea creatures in tanks. Mermaids' purses and the like.

I was going to say, stay off the Cobb in this weather!
Have a great time Blu

Watch out for fallen women and mind you don't twist your ankle on the Cobb (sea wall).

Seriously, it is a lovely place. Great fossils and the walk along the wooded fallen cliff section (to Charmouth or have I misremembered???)which figures in the French Lieutenant's woman is beautiful.

the Anchor in Seatown (near Chideock) is great place to watch the sun go down if it's warmish.

The walk I mentioned is in fact the Undercliff, Lyme Regis to Axmouth.

We went at half term. We had the best time.

This place is gorgeous for lunch and tea. It's all very cool and nice and you sit on long benches and pass each other water and everyone eats their food off blocks of wood.

Go there LOTS. And buy your bread there and oh just everything.

My father was taken to Lyme Regis every year for his summer holiday as a child. His parents were farmers living in.................another part of Dorset

I have some brilliant black and white photos of him as a teenager the 1940's standing on the promenade wearing a suit

I love the museum. And the fossil shop just behind it.

Actually you've reminded me how much I love Lyme. May have to take a trip there. We live quite close to lots of lovely places and never seem to go there.

cobb webcam

Ignore the message that says the webcam went offline during the storms, it is on

Shall I start a thread in 'Style' looking for a suitable Fallen Woman cloak to wear? I seem to remember Jeremy Irons in some risible underwear...will alert DP to his role.

I think our cottage is v close to the town Mill so we'll be able to get nice bread in the morning.

Hopefully the wind will have died down by April!

We're very excitied - Ds is beside himself looking forward to the fossil collecting and thinks of very little else.

Thanks for pub recommendations!

Have a brill time (and start a risible underwear thread in Style for DH)

Dorset apple cake from the bakery at the bottom of the hill is absolutely scrumptious - we had to go back for seconds on the following day!

We have had good meals at the George in Chideock. Is the cinema still operating in Lyme?

If you get chance,head own to Loders (tiny) village(nr Bridport) and eat in the pub there-the food is lovely and homely,sunday roasts are delishhh.

Cinema is still showing-but don't be expecting the newist films out,prob a few weeks behind down here,retro place though(my grandmother and mother have both ushered there many moons ago)

Great fishmongers therewww.wetfishshop.com/
Lots of little galleries to view and I recommend the ice cream in the little newsagents at the bottom of town!

The town mill is lovely too,lovely bread!
www.townmill.org.uk/

Museum is fab but I'm biased my family come from there

Have a lovely time!

not this one by chance>? www.lymebayholidays.co.uk/propertydetails.aspx?pageId=13&propId=B4340&Week=

We've stayed here(nr mill)..Great cottage

The Town Mill Bakery is just heaven, it really is. Fabulous pizzas in the evening, delicious apple juice in jugs, wonderful bread, jazz in the background...

The Broad St Restaurant is good too- it's not child friendly in the sense of having separate menus, but they've always been very happy to accommodate ours. By the Bay is much more downmarket but the Sunday roasts are great and very good value- not remotely posh though.

No, we are goinghere I think 'your' one was boked, Poshwellies - or else we probably woul;d have chosen that!

I was very impressed with that cottage company - they seem very reasonable prices.

I will be printing off this thread, and all linked pages, s my guide book. It all sounds completely fab.

Can't wait. I have wanted to go to Lyme Regis for years!

Is Chesil beach simply shingle all the way along? Or does it have a non-shingle path? Or dunes? Can you walk all the way along? (18 miles??)

Looks nice Blu(I know where it is)

Forget about this shop..My ds loved it(I did too)
www.anholt.co.uk/bookshop/bookshop.htm

I wish we were going for two weeks now - so many places to visit!

we were based in charmouth and had the best day out ever here

amazing value, loads to do, great adventure playgrounds and fab food in the cafe!