Old Dorset With Good Friends from Japan

We've known Yoshinori and Kyoko for forty-one years. Yoshinori is from the Snow Country, Nagaoka in Niigata Prefecture. Kyoko is from Tokyo; they live in Yokohama. They first visited Dorset in 1979, when they met my mother and grandmother in Bridport (West Bay). On that occasion they also went to Hardy's Cottage and to Corfe Castle. Kyoko is a great fan of 'Far From the Madding Crowd' . This time we introduced them to the work of William Barnes, and we watched the DVD of Hardy's "Wessex Tales" (I'm not quite sure what they made of the first story,  'The Withered Arm'). It was quite a packed five-day visit.

Some photos by Yoshinori and Kyoko: