"I do like to be beside the seaside" ?????

There are times at the seaside when you can see lovely sights such as this barque rig, 'Tenacious', tied up alongside Poole Quay this morning. Part of its usefulness in life is "to enable physically disabled people of all ages to sail on equal terms".










There are times of course at the seaside when you may think the song "I do like to be beside the seaside" was written by an idiot. In fact, like this morning not long after the picture of the ship was taken, when our trip to the seaside was as seen from a multi-storey car park. Particularly so when you find in the shelter of the Information Office that the Cockle Trail is a walk round the old town lasting approximately an hour and a half!


What do you do when the shops have nothing you want? Of course, you seek out an oasis. There is always one somewhere near if you are knowledgeable explorers. It may be of course that a helpful relative has suggested such a place. But, would you really enter when you see it at first glance? And it wasn't raining when someone else took this picture!








Neither was the scaffolding up, nor the view as seen from the inside when we tentatively made an entrance.

We were in and it was too wet to look elsewhere.












Is this a sight that would half persuade you that you may have struck lucky?









Or, perhaps this?

How lucky can you get?
One of the best Italian restaurants we have eaten in. Or any othe sort of restaurant come to that.

Da Vinci's on Poole Quay.

Oh! we do like to be beside the seaside!