Visiting Lyme Regis
 

Planning a trip for next year, we'll be traveling from Winchester to Bath. We'd love to spend a day in Lyme Regis, but won't have a car. I'd be grateful for advice on how best to do this using public transportation. Thank you.

Reading this and your other thread, the problem isn't the public transport - its the places you want to visit. Planning a trip around trains (and buses) is fine, but you need to pick places with rail service. Otherwise you'll spend hours meandering around on local buses not getting anywhere much at all.

only tool that works for me
http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2...epeatingloop=Y
Lyme is pretty and much nicer than Bath

Lyme is not quick or easy to reach without a car. I like the town very much, have stayed there twice, first arrival by rental car, second time walking on the SW Coast Path. If your time is limited and your desire is to travel exclusively by public transport it only makes sense to chose destinations accessible by train or a lot of time is wasted waiting for bus connections.

It sounds as though it'd be worth your while to reconsider renting cars. Most of your travel could be accomplished by train, then pick up cars at the closest town with a train station where you could find a car rental agency. Then head off for a day or more to your more remote destinations.

Another possibility, if your wish is to see these places more than others and it's worth the time to you, eliminate as many other destination as necessary so you have the time to travel on the trains and buses at the pace it would require. I tend to stay places longer so I can do just that. While taking a bus is not the speediest way it can be a very nice way indeed to get around, if you aren't in a hurry.

Thank you, everyone. MmePerdu, I like your idea of taking trains and then renting a car to travel to more isolated spots.

We have three weeks, so not a tremendous amount of time. Our current thinking is that we'll start in Winchester, which we last visited and loved in 1987--my only trip to England thus far. We would like to see Lyme Regis, Bath, Wells and Glastonbury before heading to Yorkshire, and then visit Cambridge on our way back. Of course, our plans will likely change many times in the next year (the trip will be June 2014) and input is very welcome!