The Hotel Kinley Weymouth

... find out our latest experiences. They'll be photos, videos and a whole lotta funny stories to keep you amused during this next year. <br><br>We're looking forward to keeping you in the loop, send us messages of what you're up to. <br><br>Much love guys and gals. <br><br>xxxxx

... and lots of families.<br><br>I did some shopping, always a good pick me up!! And took a long walk along the boardwalk.. all the beaches are quite nice around this area, they actually have sand BUT the water is freezing and no waves!! <br><br>The pier was interesting.. its quite an old structure and the pictures from the last century were amazing, everyone walking along in their suits and long ...

... a lot to see when your on them.<br><br>So we decided on a next stop as Lyme Regis on the South Coast to break up our journey back to London. It's a nice place at the start of the Jurassic Coast which we did not have time to explore. Kim impressively went for a morning run even though it was rainy and windy and I stayed tucked up in bed!

... the train station, Hannah got questioned about her age, because she is so tall everyone thinks she is older than 15! On the way Jane had texted us to say that there had been a mix up with the caravan and we would be staying in a tent! Hannah was horrified.. so was I.. its still a bit chilly in the evenings!! lol<br><br>But all was good, our tent turned out to be a very large caravan.. more like a permanent van, three bedrooms and I think slept ...

... a smashing roast at the White Lion Carvery in Crewkerne.<br><br>Sad to leave this morning, Art went off to work in Bridport at about 8.30 am and we were so imersed in chatting with Thurza that we didn' get away til 11.45 am.<br><br>Arrived at Wayne &amp; Julia Stonehams new pad at about 3.30 pm after stopping for lunch.<br><br>Hoping to catch the England v Croatia World Cup qualifier in about half an hour live on ITV!!

... in the future. Our son and family left us on the Monday to return home as they both had work on the Tuesday but next time we shall plan it better so we can spend more time together. How quiet and strange it was after they had left we missed them terribly. We took to our bikes on the Tuesday, first time we had ridden for 5 weeks, and yes it was tough going. We thought we would cycle to "Tyneham" to visit the deserted village there. Well ...

... Bill finally came up trumps too, texting me in the early hours to say he had 2 advertising spaces sold. How the hell he expects us to get them printed in 2 days, I don't know. Eileen is still harassing his banking chums it seems. I keep on getting e-mails about donations going on from people I don't know. long may it continue. He's also wangled £300 out of his former employers for some advertising, so he's certainly ...

... of rugby balls. It only took 30 minutes to get a reply and a promise of 10 new rugby balls ! I was off and running. I got to thinking about rugby and searched the net for 'rugby' and 'Ethiopia'. It turns out that there is one team in Ethiopia, formed last year. The coaches are a Frenchman, a New Zealander and a South African. I tasked one of the Ethiopian journalists who had contacted me with tracking down these ...

... blocked by snow and we had to detour to Montigny and thence over the St Bernard Pass and down to Aolta. <br> Of that whole journey, which I will one day, if time permits relate to you, we were most impressed by Switzerland. At the time it was the most expensive place in Europe. A grapefruit priced at a Co-op shop in Basel, en route, scared us into living very frugally whilst in that country! So we missed out on the wonderful transport opportunities of rail, cablecars and lake ...

... into my little shop and chatted about having lived in Switzerland and about what we had missed! He invited me to borrow his videos showing the Swiss Railways systems in all their glory. From then on we were compelled one day to go back !<br><br>So this is the travelog of our return to Switzerland after nearly 40 years! <br><br>We decide that rather than take our car again, we would go by rail ...