Somerset’s the southwest county where everything sounds like a summer beer garden after 5 ciders.
This mash up of a museum and interactive experience, located in a lovely (but slightly creepy) Grade-II four-floor gaff in Bath, has a load... Keep reading
Hills that roll off the tongue. Cheesy gorges. Glasto!
Somerset’s the southwest county where everything sounds like a summer beer garden after 5 ciders.
From haunting Taunton to the Mendip Hills and Glastonbury Tor, there’s a definite Hippy buzz about the place. And attractions like Bath’s Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein and Watchet’s Wands and Wizards Exploratorium are weird and wonderful too.
If you’re into engineering, the Clifton Suspension Bridge runs from Clifton Village in Somerset into Bristol. And the Cheddar Show Caves in Cheddar Gorge is where Britain’s oldest human skeleton was found in 1903. It’s 9000 years old and (you guessed it) they called it Cheddar Man.
Want some wine to wash down all that cheese? Aldwick Estate in Redhill does nice wine tasting tours. Or if you prefer pub craic, The Ring O’ Bells in Wincanton is always fun and friendly.
In 2010, a metal detector fan called Dave Crisp (great name) found Roman coins worth £3.3 million in a field in Frome. Bet you’re Googling ‘metal detector’ now, right?
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