Happy Columbus day time to tell more of the England travel tales.

One thing I have to start to learn with this blogging thing is that sometimes less is more and to let the pictures to the talking. The next few days in England were relatively uneventful. We were living in a rather upscale hotel in Bournemouth (without free internet) lazing around. We did some wandering around and saw some sites, I have a hard time sitting around though.
Bournemouth had a neat little central garden area that you can see below. Bournemouth is a southern beach town by English standards. None of us were very anxious to spend time on the beach as the temperature was usually in the low 70s and it was windy, occasionally rainy and the sun was rarely out. But these conditions did not stop the British. They were out on the beach on all but the rainiest and windiest days.
The picture on the left is a view of the hotel we were staying at, it is the big white one. The picture on the right was colorful but it also showed all of the beach people.

From the hotel we could see the some of the white bluffs that make up the Jurassic coast and on the second day in the hotel we did a little boat tour where we got to see the coast. There was talk of renting Kayaks but I was skeptical about how everyone would be handling the kayaks in the stiff breeze and rolling swells, I would not have been comfortable bringing my camera in a kayak, and it was quite cool. We could have gotten a closer view of the Jurassic coast but I think we definitely enjoyed the boat ride.
There were some cool facts about the Jurassic coast that we learned on the boat ride. There used to be more pillars on the right in the picture above. During WWII the British pilots used them for target practice and whittled some of them down to little stumps. The picture below shows that on the left side of the cliff the layers in the rock are running vertically instead of horizontally as you might expect for rock layers. We this shows an exposed fault line where one set of rocks were being pushed over another set of rock. They said that this is one of the few exposed fault lines in the world.
I guess I should enjoy lazy days more I certainly can procrastinate and laze around on my own time, but when I am traveling I like to be on the move. We got to relax over these days and did get out to see the sights and we went to a British movie theater to see Mamma Mia (This wasn't our first choice but the others were sold out, the girls had a good time I was mildly entertained).
I hope to finish the rest of our foreign travel tales soon. We only had a few more days left.
Was this post a little better for length?
Happy Columbus day (a little perk for teachers getting these occasional three day weekends to update our blogs, play with the dogs, and do yard work)