13th June 2005 - Christchurch and Bournemouth
Christchurch is a nice little town - never seems busy, yet not empty. There's always the right amount of people walking around the town. We decided to head towards the Priory Church with the assumption that we would find the Priory area that H.V. Morton dined on tea and lobster at 4:30pm. We found nothing of the sorts except for the local market selling the usual tat. Disappointingly, there also seemed to be a lack of any quaint tea-shops that I was hoping for.
We discovered the church in a state of partial restoration - much of the outside walls had been cleaned, and in comparison with some old stone, it was quite impressive. It stood out more, was eye-catching and made you realise just how long it's been standing there for. Churches do not inspire anything within me personally, but the architecture is something that is to be respected. I suppose that Nav will have better things to say about Christchurch's Priory Church.
Soon, we made our way up to a demolished stone lookout, although it does not look out very far nowadays what with the surrounding tall buildings. Off back into town, we decided that it be best to move on. Although not originally on the route, Bournemouth beckoned as it was so close and to miss it would have been silly. Hence a quick nip to the Fisherman Walk region of Bournemouth beach was made. Nav decided that a monument be made as a tribute to H.V. Morton. Then we trundled back to the car.
The trip up to Salisbury was fine, I'm sure we probably escaped death a couple of times, but it was okay. We camped at 'Stonehenge Touring Park' or some-such name, about 8 miles West of Stonehenge. I didn't bother to tell the owner about our trip - no-one cares really.
-- steven
We discovered the church in a state of partial restoration - much of the outside walls had been cleaned, and in comparison with some old stone, it was quite impressive. It stood out more, was eye-catching and made you realise just how long it's been standing there for. Churches do not inspire anything within me personally, but the architecture is something that is to be respected. I suppose that Nav will have better things to say about Christchurch's Priory Church.
Soon, we made our way up to a demolished stone lookout, although it does not look out very far nowadays what with the surrounding tall buildings. Off back into town, we decided that it be best to move on. Although not originally on the route, Bournemouth beckoned as it was so close and to miss it would have been silly. Hence a quick nip to the Fisherman Walk region of Bournemouth beach was made. Nav decided that a monument be made as a tribute to H.V. Morton. Then we trundled back to the car.
The trip up to Salisbury was fine, I'm sure we probably escaped death a couple of times, but it was okay. We camped at 'Stonehenge Touring Park' or some-such name, about 8 miles West of Stonehenge. I didn't bother to tell the owner about our trip - no-one cares really.
-- steven
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