The Old Harbour on Olympic Sunday 29th July 2012.

Wandered around the old harbour yesterday afternoon.  Weymouth is at it's best at this time of year and especially now with the olympics.
The first unusual thing we noticed was the Weymouth brass concert band playing to each other across the town bridge when it was opening at 2pm.  This is part of the b-side festival that is currently going on in Weymouth.
We then walked down the harbour arm and had an excellent view of the Olympic sailing event.  Sat on the beach for a while and soaked up the sun and atmosphere.
Then wandered back to Brewers Quay where a great band was playing live outside the Red Lion.  The atmosphere again, was superb with people of all ages dancing in the street.
A fantastic, gloriously sunny, Olympic Weymouth day.

Yummy Breakfast at Taste.

Popped down to the Chesil Beach Cafe on Sunday morning and had a yummy breakfast at Taste.
Hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows for one daughter with a bacon baguette and toasted tea cake and apple juice for the other.  My husband had a full English and I had a small English.   Service was great, food was delicious and the views were fantastic.  This was the view in front of us - we were sat by the window!

After eating and enjoying the visitor centre we went for a walk up and over the bank to see the sea.

The visitor centre is now run by the Dorset Wildlife Trust and has a number of interactive activities within it and of course the obligatory shop.  It is well worth a visit.

Parking was 80p an hour - not sure if that's winter prices or all year round.  Seemed very popular with families, dog walkers, fisherfamilies (as opposed to fishermen!) and bird watchers.