After Sidmouth I went on to Lyme Regis on my own and booked myself into an eccentric and ultimately depressing Bed and Breakfast. Message to myself: don’t stay in Bed and Breakfasts in the winter. There is just nothing to do in the evenings and they are long.
I wanted to spend some time in Lyme after having read Tracey Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures.
I timed my visit well as on the Sunday the tides were perfect (as was the weather) for a fossil hunt. There were two hunts, the one organised by the museum had huge numbers and the other organised by the fossil shop had just me so I had a brilliant time. It turns out that Tracey Chevalier had spent some time in Lyme researching Mary Anning (the local fossil hunter, the subject of Remarkable Creatures) and had gone out fossil hunting with Paul (my guide). I was overwhelmed with all the information he gave me about fossils and came back with all my pockets stuffed with fossils. And no photos.
On the Saturday I went to the museum which is well worth the visit.
Dolls’ House food
Fossils
Beautiful fish fossil
Fossil excrement
Paul was an expert at finding this stuff
And the built environment of Lyme is a pleasure to walk around
Mary Anning’s grave
The church. Not photographed but it has an interesting lobby
The Mary Anning window
Birds on a bird
The harbour
Looking towards Lyme
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