On our perpetual quest to find the best walking in Somerset, we’ve recently been exploring walking routes further afield from our usual sites. Living with Exmoor, the Blackdowns and the Quantocks all within easy reach of home, we’ve been somewhat spoiled by having most of the routes routinely cited as the best, on our doorstep. But Somerset is a big…
Review of The Circus in Bath, a restaurant with a focus on good seasonal ingredients where classic and familiar dishes are tweaked by a talented chef.
Watchet sits on the Somerset coastline and apart from being a very pretty seaside town with a harbour, a wide promenade lined with cafes and ice cream parlours, and an excellent fish ‘n’ chips shop, it’s also a stop on the West Somerset Railway allowing you to travel along the coast in steam-powered style.
The easy Porlock to Porlock Weir circular walk is small in length but big on diversity of landscapes and reasons to linger.
The Quantocks especially are a revelation that remain relatively undiscovered by people outside of the South West of England.
The first time we visited Minehead, we had a pasty, a look around the town, and drove off. The second time, we walked from Watchet, took a couple of photos of Owen Ward’s wonderful sculpture marking the start of the South West Coast Path, had a coffee, jumped on a bus, and returned to Watchet for a glass of cider…
Returning to Britain wasn’t likely to throw up anything new, nevertheless it has been an education over the last couple of years getting to know the best things to eat and drink in Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall.
The Somerset honey we’re currently using is from a producer less than three miles away. Going local when it comes to honey is a must for us.
Some thirty or more years ago, our friend took us on a walk to ‘the obelisk’, one of her favourite places …
Standing 53 metres (174ft) tall on the edge of the Blackdown Hills, the Wellington Monument is the world’s tallest three-sided obelisk…