A Charming Coastal Town

On our last day with Kevin and Sue, they took us to the picturesque town of Lymington.  It is a port where the Lymington River flows into the Solent, the strait of the English Channel which separates Isle of Wight from the mainland.

St. Thomas's Church is the main Anglican parish church.

As in many British towns, the main commercial street is called "HIgh Street".

Lymington's High Street is lined with buildings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.

We stopped at a pasty shop on High Street.

A pasty is a turnover typical of Cornwall and Devon.  It is traditionally filled with meat, potatoes and onions.  It has a distinctive "D" shape with a thick, crimped crust on the curved side.    Miners in Cornwall would take pasties to work to eat for lunch.  They could eat the filled portion of the turnover and hold it by the crust with their dirty hands.  We all agreed that the pasties from this shop were exceptionally good.

From High Street a narrower, cobblestoned street leads down to the harbor.  It is lined with restaurants and tourist shops.

We sat on a bench at the water's edge and enjoyed our pasties.

That evening we went to nearby Mudeford and had a lovely farewell dinner at an elegant hotel restaurant.  The next day we were to begin the next leg of our journey and fly to Switzerland.

Our thanks to Kevin and Sue for their warm hospitality and for making our days on England's southern coast so enjoyable.