The Beach at Burton Bradstock

Just 4 km southeast of Bridport on Dorset's Jurassic Coast lies the village Burton Bradstock.  This is where we went on Saturday, the 17th of May 2014 to attend a fete featuring a food tent with lots of local products like local beers, breads and fudge (we loved the ginger fudge) of which one could mostly have a taste.

Parking lots are well organised in England and this one was no exception. People in Dorset are just very friendly and generally ready to strike up a conversation.  The official at the parking lot was no exception readily giving us advice on weather conditions.  We did not quite believe that jerseys were necessary, but down on the beach they were.

What struck us in the parking lot was the number of lovely vintage cars as well as some quite expensive new cars.

From there we walked towards the tents and exhibitions.  

An exhibition to show what life in ancient Wessex was like.

Bellows like they used in ancient times.

Debbie tried her hand at it, but it is more difficult than it looks.

Having looked at the many things for sale we went down to the beach.

There were many people out enjoying the day on the beach.

We had a bit of a picnic ourselves, but it was not really warm, more like July in Scottburgh, South Africa.

Here there are vertical cliffs of up to 45 metres high with rock falls a constant danger.

This last picture shows Pieter Botha and Kevin Lomas taking pictures of the awesome cliff face.

Our next adventure takes us to the site of an old mill in the inland which we reached through lovely country lanes, but that is for the next blog.