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A British beach holiday

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We recently went away for a beach holiday on the Jurassic/Dorset Coast as my three year old is mad about all things dinosaurs, and we like being outdoors.  The holiday allowed us to combine both and also to explore a little bit the island that we live on. It was also a relatively safe way for us to test how much walking Baby would be willing to do and would help us plan future more active, holidays. We based ourselves in Weymouth which is at the end of the train line from London Waterloo. Three hours on the train took us in to Weymouth town center and a short taxi ride uphill took us to our holiday apartment booked online via Dream Cottages .  We did the reverse journey back to London and the travelling was very smooth.  Not driving ourselves meant not having to deal with traffic jams and tired drivers (the drive was predicted to be about 3.5 hours in good traffic).  We upgraded to the first class compartment for the train journeys and it was a good decision as a...