Dorset

Lulworth Cove

Lulworth Cove is a nice circular cove in Dorset, I used to cycle around places like this when I was at University in nearby Bournemouth, I would generally get the train somewhere with my bike and take a OS map of the area and then cycle around, get a bit lost and then try to get back to Bournemouth. I remember coming down the hill into Lulworth Cove and going 48mph - almost as fast as a Subaru! My bicycle started wobbling so I had to slow down, it was also a 30mph zone, bicycle power! On another occasion I took the train to Weymouth, (the location for this years Olympic sailing events) and cycled back along the coast as far as Wool, which is a place as well as a material, at one point the path had slipped into the sea and I had to cycle round a herd of cows, I didn't think anything of it until I looked around and saw them all following me, I cycled a bit faster and glanced around to see the herd stampeding after me. The ground was very rough and lumpy and I just about kept control, but I had to hide in a thorny hedge for 2 hours with now way out covered in cow pats, in the end I fought my way through the dense spiky hedge through to the next field. 

This time wasn't so terrifying, we had a cream tea instead, we rated it 6/10, and this was mainly because the jam lacked flavour and the scones tasted a bit weird. The picture below is the not the cove, but the other direction as I find it more interesting, I went to the view point of where I had taken a photo the time I had come by bicycle and later had made into a painting. So I went to see if much had changed. Not much had except the trees had grown a bit. 

The other side of the cove

My painting of the cove, painted whilst at Uni, still need to sign it.