Day 10 The weather and the Abbey

Today we set off for new horizons, however the weather is just terrible, wet freezing and miserable.
We packed up our goods and shackles, poor John having to carry them out to the car getting very wet.... but not as wet as their poor postie here in his long shorts and thin long sleeved shirt and a cap on his head, not rain coat, no over coat..... I decided he must have been numb so couldn’t feel just how cold it really is!

Said our thank you’s to our Host Marsha and off we set down the Hwy! John had plotted a map off the fwy so hopefully we can find some sights! So pleased we did as we pulled up for a cuppa at a Farm Cafe and while there they had heaps of info on sights coming up, this is where we found the Glastonbury Abbey Boucher...... so resetting the Nav we headed to Glastonbury. Was that change worth it unreal sight to visit. They think it was built in the 1100 century but not totally sure.... as history hasn’t been as kind with info for this place as it could have been. Legend also have it that King Arthur, Guenveur are buried here. but the story also goes the Abbey was badly burnt and the Monks were broke they feel they told the story about Arthur to get people to visit the Abbey hence bring money to keep it going.... So truth or fiction the tale still goes on....

From here we headed onto the awful freeway, but made our way down to the bottom end of Wales coastline to Weston Super Mare long name not sure why it’s called this but meant to be like the Goldcoast of Wales.... unreal place to visit with its fancy hotels, huge promenade and massive pier into the ocean, also what looks like a man made island jutting out into the ocean with fancy hotels on it!!!! It often gets call Weston Super Mud as the waters are so muddy and yukky looking it has huge tidal changes each day going out for a very, very long way!

This was our first place to have English Fish and Chips over looking the amazing modern pier. After lunch we had to head off accidentally heading the wrong way finding an old pier totally in ruin. It’s called the Birnbeck Pier and locals are trying to have it restored it dates back to 1864 and has an amazing history in itself.... looked so sad it state if disrepair. I took a heap of pics and found some great graffiti while there so a few pics of this and off we set for our hotel, for the next 2 nights...... I was so sure it was for 3 nights, but sadly for 2 so our looking around here will be a bit rushed sadly!

On arrival at our hotel first look it was like our cheap hotels at home 2 levels and not flash, but the Italian at the desk was friendly and helpful. Our room was neat clean, twin beds this time and yep no fridge. But because it’s so cold here and there is a little entrance way between the main door and another door into our room we are using it as our fridge hope it works feels cold enough!
Had a walk to Lidel like Aldi to get some plastic plates and cutlery but no luck, so went next to it another lot of shops and very little in the line of what we needed to just have to do with what we can for breaky plates in the AM!
Had dinner at the hotel restaurant but very bland, as John Says you get what you pay for!

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