A DAY WITH DARWIN.

Yesterday we visited Down House in Kent to visit 

the home of Charles Darwin and his family.

My favourite room was Darwin's study which was full of papers, books and his old horsehair armchair to which he had fixed wheels like a modern office chair.

My favourite object was the wooden slide that Darwin had made for his children so that they could slide down the stairs.

Sadly photos inside the house were not allowed.

The gardens were beautiful and practical.

I do love walled gardens.

I loved the glass house sitting within the walled garden.

We walked along Darwin's sandwalk ( Darwin's thinking path) and then through a wooded area back to the house.

The trees were looking glorious in their Autumn colours.

What a great place to be a squirrel.

Today I'm putting this glass panel together.

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Lovely Lyme Regis.

We love Lyme Regis. 

Over the little footbridge sitting in the sun is our little camper van on the Hook Farm campsite.

We have visited this campsite a few times and we love it because there is a very pretty walk into Lyme Regis

Lovely countryside until we emerged into the town and its gorgeous colourful houses.

I love this bright orange front door.

We had a wonderful time walking into Lyme Regis and into Charmouth.

One sunny day we drove to West Bay to visit the Hive cafe.

I had read about Lucy's visits to this cafe on Attic 24's blog.

It is just as good as she describes. We both had some delicious cake -very welcome after a long walk on the shingle beach. 

Hive cafe in photo above.

Shingle - a great work out for the legs!

Beautifully clear rock pools.

These cliffs are full of fossils.

We met a wonderful man tap, tapping away at some rocks, He had found a huge pile of fossils  -mostly Ammonites. 

As you can see we were very lucky with the weather.

This is Cannington viaduct.

We had a jaunt over some fields to have a look at this as I do like a viaduct -I don't know why I just do.

What a lovely holiday.

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