Sunday 6th April 2025

By: Mike

                                                                    Rest Day (sort of)
 


Rest day

We have a late breakfast and amble towards the harbour.  I buy a post card for Stuart. We have a coffee at the Customs House Café on the old harbour.  I have an urge to go to Portland, since we are planning to duck the walk round it.  We find a bus.  Portland is actually pretty grim.  Rows of 19th  Century housing mixed with pretty grim modern estates. It reminds me of Middlesbrough.  We go to the end of the bus route and stay on board to come back.  We do see some of the stone quarries, but apparently most of the stone is now mined underground using Italian cutters developed for getting out marble.

Lunch is smoked mackerel sandwiches back at the Customs House.

Still in penance for our splurge at ‘Catch on the Harbour’, we get fish and chips and eat them sitting on a bench by the harbour.

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