Lyme Regis

[Pippa]

Anyone planning a short break I can really recommend Lyme Regis for a weekend. I stayed there last week for my 60th birthday celebration, the coffee at the Bay Hotel is great, you sit on the marine drive and watch the sea and the By the Bay Restaurant has excellent food. Lots of lovely little shops and the Blue Lias gallery, Old town Mill, fossil and shell shops galore, the Cobb to walk along (carefully) and good for all ages, it was just delightful. Not far from Axminster, so you can visit Hugh's shop and canteen and of course surrounded by the most beautiful countryside ever. Make a visit.

[franbee]

I agree Pippa, we have had a couple of holidays in the area and loved it. Can you still walk on the Undercliff, and search for fossils on the beach at Charmouth?

[keepersdaughter]

Quite agree Pippa, though it's been about 13 years since we last visited there, pleased to hear it's just as nice. My son was in the dinosaur stage and we had a great time looking at the shops then combing the beach looking for fossils and shells. As you say, lovely countryside too, so something to keep everyone happy. Belated birthday greetings if I didn't say HB last week.
Glad to hear you had a lovely time and what a nice way to spend it :) .

[Crocus]

Oh Lovely Lyme Regis! During our visit to the UK last December, we drove down there, and had coffee at a very quaint tea/gift shop - can't remember the name unfortunately. It was a lovely sunny day, cold, but beautiful.

[Rose]

My late MIL used to own the little Georgian cottage at the top of the main shopping street. As a family we spent many happy holidays with the children there. It is a proper old fashioned seaside town.

I used to wonder at the many very old people living there, then realised that having to stomp up and down the hilly streets was the best medicine about.

[TIGGYWINKLE]

Pippa, You are stirring up some great old memories. I was living in Bristol in 1965, and was working all over the South. I spent the weekends at a friends beautiful farm in Chard in Somerset. Her mum was a wonderful cook, and she made great clotted cream. A bunch of us bought a Mini Moke for the Summer, and we went down to Lyme Regis every Sunday. Such a lovely place, and a great Summer. I remember the song "I gotta get out of the place" was top of the pops. The sixties were great. Thank you for bringing it all back to me. Tiggywinkle

[Healing Hands]

Hi Pippa, I am stopping off at Lyme Regis in August with some friends as we are going to a wedding in Totnes. The last time we all went down was for our friends 50th so we thought we would stop of at Lyme Regis for breakfast, well brunch really and it was lovely we had a lovely time, we said we would stop there again before going onto Totnes. I would like to go to Axminster so I will try and presude my friends if they would like to go. The only thing we are going in their car so I always find it difficult to ask.