Tandy Family Dorset Road Trip: Day 4
19/04/2019
Today was kinda doomed from the start. We spent about an hour trying to agree on somewhere to have breakfast, finally agreed, ordered, and our food arrived almost inedible, so we got refunds and had to go somewhere else. By the time we got in the car, we were all in pretty horrible moods and spent the rest of the day snapping at each other.
We drove to Sandbanks, hoping to get the chain ferry to Swanage then onto Portland and our final airbnb. The traffic was absolutely horrendous, what with it being nice weather and a bank holiday, so we drove to Portland instead, via Corfe Castle.
I don't know why it seems so strange to me, to see people walking around in the bay like this, but it does. According to the boat tours guy from yesterday, it's waist-deep throughout the bay, which is super weird, given the size of some of the ferries you see.
Dogs run around in the water. It's all very strange.
Corfe Castle looks really nice, but it's basically impossible to get a photo of it from above, with the village, roads, railway and generally large number of people walking around. You get the idea, though!
Large chunks of the castle have just fallen off. It's a health-and-safety nightmare.
The view from the castle, over the hills, is very pleasant.
There's a stream on the way back that Tabitha really wanted to cross. Falling in was inevitable to all but her.
Tomorrow I'm doing a stone-masonry course, which I'm excited about. It's either going to go really well or I'm going to be utterly useless at it. I know where I'm placing my bets but I guess we'll see. Hopefully we can all get up in better moods.