Catch up - Tuesday 8th, evening

I am now in a particulaly comfortable room in Lyme Regis, overlooking the bay and not far from the Cobb, having had a busy couple of days getting here and sorted.

On Monday morning I packed the remarkably able Audi A2 with rather more than just a rucksack full of essentails, for the long trip to Lyme Regis - down the M6/M5 etc. It was remarkably quick, and I got here in time to find a hotel and a nice place for dinner - fresh local bream. Today I found a nice hotel with a room overlooking the bay, and moved in.

I spent some time this morning wandering around Lyme Regis. It was shrouded in extremely low cloud (occasionally fog) - giving it a soft feel. (Ed.: This is what the Irish call crap drizzly weather). There are lots of bookshops, fish restaurants, and unreconstructed B+Bs from the 70s. Also the occasional fossil museum, fossil shop, fossil information booth, and lots of quite well educated 6 and 7 year old fossil experts with their (enthusiastic) mums and tolerant dads. Or vice-versa.

This afternoon I headed west to the western bay area to find out more about this fossil business. It is an amazing thing. Huge slabs of rock with imprints of sea creatures from millions of years ago all over the place! And quite a few clever looking people finding exciting things. I found that some of the rocks were slippery and I nearly fell onto my poorly shoulder again! As I had learned previously this year, in these circumstances, protect the integrity of your musculo-skeletal assets and return to a bar to observe the world go by. This I did. Photos to follow! 10km of pottering recorded on the pedometer.