England - Sep18 - Weymouth

After visiting Portsmouth, we drove west to Weymouth which is a seaside town in Dorset, southern England.  Originally the plan had included a stop at the Tank Museum in Bovington, so I had tried to find a place to stay close by Bovington.  I don't know what I was thinking because Weymouth isn't that close to Bovington!  But it turned out to be kind of a neat place; I'm glad we saw it.  Since we didn't have time for the Tank Museum -- Lynnette was really upset about that!  -- Weymouth was closer to where we wanted to go the next day anyways.

In Weymouth, we stayed at the Somerset House Hotel which I would describe as a corner pub restaurant with a few very nice, new, modern rooms above it.   It's a short walk to the beach.
   
The center of town.
   
We were walking along the boardwalk when we came across this memorial.  And then I remembered.  In World War II, they were conducting a training exercise at Weymouth Bay in preparation for the D-Day invasion.  Some German E-boats were able to get in and sink one of the troopships with great loss of life.  I was impressed that they had a memorial to it.
   
I can see why they practiced the invasion here; this beach is very similar to the Normandy beaches.
   
 
   
   
Previous
Home
Next