I finally got round to getting the photos developed from my summer travels in the UK. I spent some of the wettest weeks of July and September and November (not strictly summer but similar weather conditions in each month) in the UK for work. However it was a privilege for part of that time to be spent in Somerset and I stayed at the Coombe House Hotel near Nether Stowey twice - much recommended.
From my roost at Nether Stowey I had to go to Taunton a few times and there are two possible routes. The sensible but very long one is along proper roads around the Quantocks and via Bridgewater, the not so sensible route is over the top of the Quantocks on what some might call roads but are really more like narrow tubes between high hedges. Naturally I opted for the dangers of the narrow roads over the hills.
This did mean that I found my way back to my favourite place when I was a child - Triscombe Stone up on the Drove Road that follows the line of the Quantocks. I did a couple of walks up there - my risk analysis for both walks was that I was crazy! It was wet, visibility was minimal as the clouds sat on the hills, there was no one else around, my only waterproof was a high visibility vest and mobile phone signals were dodgy at best. Still, you are only young and foolish once, right? And I survived.
So here is the Drove Road - a wonderfully atmospheric place. One day I will walk the whole of it from end to end, while I am still young and foolish enough to.
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