Free Weekend: Explore Olympic Weymouth, Dorset
Broody skies hung heavy as we trundled along the coast. Our offspring had long expended all distractions a train carriage might offer, the promise of ‘the beach’ now the singular deterrent to insufferable squirming. Their grandpa had questioned our motivation. ‘Weymouth?’ His mock baffled tone condensed decades of decline at the UK’s once celebrated seaside …