A long walk along our local beach this morning, where as seems usual in England now, the tide was out for miles. Interestingly, this was a sand beach as opposed to a stone one, and […]
Day Nineteen
Cheddar Gorge. Not made out of cheese as one might think but rather England’s biggest gorge riding up so,e 500 feet and very steeply too, we can both attest. The Gorge is a world renowned […]
Day Eighteen
We are in Somerset on the “upper coast” in the South. We started the day by visiting the gothic manor house and gardens of Tyntesfield, a grand 1850s estate, built by, as the brochure mentions, […]
Day Seventeen
A catch up day today, with a side trip into Bath and the Fashion Museum displaying their “400 Years of Fashion” show. Bath is a very pretty city with an ancient history of restorative bathing, […]
Day Sixteen
Exploring on our way to Bath today. First stop was the lovely Barrington Court, the first house acquired by the National Trust in 1907. Built in the 1500s in the Elizabethan manner, the house was […]
Day Fifteen
A big shop in the morning as we were out of almost everything, and then off to the seaside town of Lyme Regis. The town is set on the Jurassic coast, which is a world […]
Day Fourteen
Bit of a lost day, slept in and had a lovely lazy breakfast of raspberries and porridge. The day fogged in and for most of the afternoon the visibility was no more than a few […]
Day Thirteen
The number thirteen has lived up to its history – a very good day for me. In short, otters. Otters, otters, and more otters. And I got to handle a bird of prey, a Bengal […]
Day Twelve
We stepped back in time today, to medieval days. The 12th century to be precise, with a visit to the town of Marzion, chartered by Henry III in 1257. It was originally a market town […]
Day Eleven
In the tradition of Downton Abbey, we took the opportunity to visit Lanhdrock, a traditional manor house surrounded by 900 acres of garden. The manor was razed by fired in the 1880s and rebuilt in […]
