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Three Days in Somerset — Day 2

  • On July 13, 2019
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Day two in Somerset will involve some driving. Starting from the Abbey Hotel, head for Glastonbury, to see the Glastonbury Tor (pictured above courtesy National Trust UK) which is an imposing hill near the town of Glastonbury. At the top are the ruins of St Michael’s Tower, with a history going back to the Iron Age.  The stone Church of St Michael was built in the 14thcentury to replace a wooden church which …

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Serendipity, a Town All About Cheese and an Old Hymn. Yes, There is a Connection.

On one of our earlier journeys in England, we were testing to see how a GPS system worked. This was before smartphones, in the early days of GPS or, as the Brits call it, SatNav.  The system was a GPS receiver connected to my PDA running a navigation program. Back in those days you could never tell which way the SatNav was likely to take you, so it was a bit of an adventure.

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