Scenes On The Road To Wells

Our drive back east through Devon took the better part of two days, including the long stop at Knightshayes and several shorter ones, not to mention several misadventures looking for obscure stone circles, rows, dolmens, menhirs, and the like. Somehow we are a little less adventurous than in 2009. Or perhaps a bit more discriminating in what we we're willing to drive to. My current criterion is that if a menhir is not taller than I am, forget it. Unless richly carved. Anyhow, there is much beautiful countryside in the west, particularly if you get off the dual carriage-way.

Two-seat (chopped-down) Mini outside a pub; the color is
"harvest gold," right, Rebecca?

The Bickleigh Bridge, near Bickleigh Castle, Devon

The River Exe, now way upstream

Thus

At length,we got into Somerset and spent the night on
Walton Hill (Walton Mountain was booked up), at the
National Trust carpark

It was a bit noisy (evening (dog) walkies), but the signage was
good

Thus

Beautiful pastoral countryside, out the front window

And Glastonbury Tor out the back; we drove
into Glastonbury the next day for some
provisioning, marveling once again at the
weirdness, now approaching a crescendo as the
Festival is only a week or so away; we hope
to be far, far away