Sommerset: The land of Brunel, cheddar & the Wookey Witch
It was holiday time again. Our third this year, but who’s counting! With Covid restrictions lifted in the UK we could have perhaps ventured further afield but not wanting to sit in the confined space of a plane for hours with dozens of other people, we opted for another staycation, this time in Sommerset. It has been about 14 years since I traversed the county’s tourist spots, so it was nice to return and see some of them again. This time we opted to stay in the slightly busier coastal town of Burnham-on-Sea, not somewhere I’d ever stayed before, but it was good to have a few more amenities on the doorstep as opposed to Brean where I’d stayed in my childhood. On the way down we encountered a lot of traffic and crawled most the way down the M5. Hence, we decided to stop off at the Michaelwood services for some food and a cache, just a few miles from our destination. It was the first cache of the holiday and it didn’t take long to spot. The following day we headed out to one...