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Date: 05 June 2011 12:39:56
Me, Mum and Dad have worked out that we have been going to Lyme, on and off, for twenty years. It is a small town right on the south coast. It has a famous medieval sea defence, called the Cobb, which is a huge wall that sticks right out into the sea. Meryl Streep walked on it in the film of the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman. My mum walked on top of it this time, with my dad, despite it being very windy. I'm not brave enough (or foolhardy enough, depending on your point of view) so I sat on a bench, looking at the harbour, to wait for them. I love this place; we all do. We've been here so often that if we do go anywhere, we're always going back to places we've visited many times before, but in Lyme, it doesn't seem to matter. We just love it! MOre and more people have discovered its beauty over the years, so it isn't as quiet maybe as it once was, particularly during half term, and when the weather is as hot as it was on Thursday and Friday, but for us, it has never, ever lost any of its charm. There's got to be something special about it to make us go back again and again!