As we sit on the edge of Dartmoor, wondering why it’s been raining all night in the middle of a heat wave I realised that I had never finished our last excursion.
Arriving home is always a busy time and inevitably I forget to record the final blog entry. This trip to the Isle of Purbeck was no exception so here is the belated record of the last couple of days of our late July jaunt.
I cast my mind back to Friday the 25th July 2025 and we awoke to another glorious summer day. After gorging on a bowl of Fruit n Fibre for breakfast we headed for Corfe Castle via the Ridgeway which runs at the back of the campsite. It’s a steep climb but the views across the campsite and later across to Corfe Castle are magnificent.
Once at Corfe Castle we headed to the railway station and caught the next train to Swanage. Swanage railway is a Heritage line which has been reconstructed from nothing in 1976, after the seven miles of line was demolished in 1972. It operates heritage trains along part of the 10 mile former branch line between Wareham and Swanage.
Lunch was a late affair at the Fox Inn in Corfe castle and our return hike to the campsite headed through the lowland fields, south of the site.
Saturday was the start of Swanage carnival week and the Red Arrows display kicked things off at 11:00am. We drove to Knoll beach which has a free (for members) National Trust carpark and unusually, caters extremely well for Motorhomes and Campervans. Moes lifetime membership (which funnily enough we had purchased at a previous visit to Corfe Castle) came good again. Here we watched the display before driving further west to Seatown, near Bridport.
At Seatown we booked into the Golden Cap holiday park. We needed some decent facilities and whilst the best touring pitches were all full, we found a spot in the large camping field “Berries Field”. Sunday lunch we met friends Bob and Mandy at the Anchor Inn, Seatown. The weather was now wet and so we decided we would head back to East Devon later that day, winding up our little mini-break to get our Campervan Nellie serviced.
