Purbeck Again

We're off to Purbeck again on Saturday, for another week of country walking and/or reading in the caravan at Swanage while waiting for the weather to clear. We have a number of walks already planned, to fill in (some of) the gaps left over from last summer: across the heath at Studland (with possibly a quick peek at the naturist beach because, *coff coff*, one just can't resist the lure of naked flesh -- or, more likely, naked flabby bodies); from Kingston around the Kimmeridge Levels and back via the viewpoint at Swyre Head; along the Wareham Forest Way to Sturminster Marshall (or, more likely, back from Sturminster Marshall; there's a bus service, but since the service runs via Poole it will clearly be preferable to start from there rather than finish there); and a visit to the town museum at Wareham, which caught us out last time by closing at 4.00pm, just as we'd finished our walk around the walls of the Saxon settlement and had an hour to wait for the bus back to Swanage. Plus the walks we really want to do: on the Purbeck Hills west of Corfe Castle, or as close as one can get to the military ranges; and to Corfe Castle from Swanage, across the downs in the morning sunshine. And if that last works out correctly, when we reach the brow of Challow Hill, with the castle below us, we'll sit ourselves down with our lunchtime sandwiches, and Judith will sketch and paint while I read, and we'll both watch the hares in the fields below and the kestrels in the sky above, and we'll know that no matter how many times we return we will never have "done" Purbeck.