The Gerrard Chronicles 2009 - Traveller's Tales 2 |
May 25th to 30th TO BATH & ST IVES
Solsbury Hill from Batheaston Cadbury Castle from the North, built about 500BC & modernised in 500AD, about Arthur's time. |
A trip with several objectives. Ken needed photos for a probable "King Arthur" talk, so we first visited the large Solsbury Hill Iron Age Fort near Bath, a possible "Mount Badon" location, where Arthur thrashed the Saxons. We stayed in the Redcar Hotel in Bath, then moved on to South Cadbury, a possible Camelot (the locals are certain, of course). Then, on to St. Ives, staying at the Thurlestone Guest House in Carbis Bay for a not-very-good show in the Tate Gallery & some touring around, largely in sea fog. We did meet up with Ken's gorgeous distant cousin Elizabeth Jane Baldry (below) playing the harp at a wedding. |
Avis in the Solsbury Hill Fort 2 ramparts of Cadbury Castle, near the modernised gateway & track up. |
On the way back, we stopped at Bovey Tracy at the Riverside Inn, so as to visit the Stover Country Park on our way home.
St Ives Panorama |
Stover Park Lake |
September 16th & 17th TO GLASTONBURY
There was a notice in "History Today" of a King Arthur show in Glastobury Abbey, so we drove down there &, after booking in to the unlikely-named "Who'd a Thought it" pub, discovered the show was disappointingy small. However, it was a chance to look round the Abbey & next morning, climb the Tor before coming home.
Glastonbury Abbey |
Tommy rot |
Glastonbury Tor |
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