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The Woodland Trust

27 Jun

There’s a new project being launched in October 2010 that is being run by the Woodland Trust in conjunction with it’s partners (ranging from the Forestry Commission to the National Trust) and I’m proud to be part of it!

Lots of work is going on in the background to make sure that lots of content is put on a new website from people (like myself) who have actually visited some of the 24,000 (yes really that many) woods that are all around the UK.

There will also be the opportunity for anyone to have their say on any woods they have been to along with the facility to upload and share your own photos.

Watch this space!

 
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Camping In Somerset – Cheddar Gorge

01 Jun

Woke up at 5am this morning to the sound of rain on my tent – bloody noisy rain…

Finally dragged myself out of the tent and got ready for a fun-filled day in the rain :(

I was unable to cook some breakfast outside as the rain didnt look like it was going to stop so I got in my car and headed off up the road on the lookout for a cafe, I finally found one and had a nice breakfast where I sifted through a few leaflets I had picked up trying to find something to do in the rain.

At Cheddar Gorge there are a few caves that you can go round so that’s what I decided to do!

You get given a ‘wand’ that you type a number in and it tells you about the part of the cave you are standing in.  There are 3 basic options, there is one number for Adults, another for Children and a final one for some more in-depth information so there’s a virtual tour for everyone!

As you can see from the photo above, they actually mature some of the Cheddar cheese that is made in the village in the caves themselves.

As I was taking a photo graph of this ‘person’ here…

I turned around and took a random photograph of whatever was behind me and bearing in mind it was pitch-black, when I glimsed at what was on the camera screen I to look twice as there were some skeletons staring back at me!

In the second set of caves I stopped at the top of some stairs and took a quick photo, I looked at what was on my camera screen and it looked like their was someone at the bottom of the stairs so I turned on the flash and took another photo and got this:

I compared the 2 photos and what was either a person or dummy hadn’t moved so I finally decided it was a dummy so didnt need to prepare myself to be growled at or something…  Needless to say I was wrong and just as I approached the doorway he suddenly moved, opened the curtain and welcomed me in!  Nearly jumped out of my skin!

Cheddar Gorge is an absolute must if you’re visiting Somerset and as I found out, it’s basically an all-weather day out as it doesn’t matter what the weathers like when you’re underground in a cave!

For the full photo gallery please click here:

Cheddar Gorge Photo Gallery

http://www.ketrin.co.uk/2010/06/01/cheddar-gorge/

 
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Camping In Somerset

31 May

I woke up this morning to another nice day so after cooking a hearty breakfast, I got out my English Heritage map and had a look at some places I would visit today.

The first place I went to was Alfreds Tower which is actually a National Trust property, as it was only a couple of quid to look around I thought I’d take a look.

As you can see the views from the top of this folly are amazing!

I then headed off towards Muchelney Abbey, but before I could get anywhere close I spotted some signs for the Haynes International Motor Museum so I popped in their for a quick look around:

After enjoying a spot of lunch at the Museum I then headed off towards my original location of Muchelney Abbey:

It wasn’t the best remains of an Abbey I have ever been to but as I was in the area it was worth popping in to.

I then decided to head off to Glastonbury and had a quick look at the Meare Fish House that was en-route:

Finally I arrived in Glastonbury, which wasn’t as big as I was expecting.  I came across this cross on Market Street:

At first I thought it was an Eleanor Cross but after a few seconds I realised it wasn’t on the route that all the ther Eleanor Crosses are on so it couldn’t be one.

It was getting late in the day so I decided to round it off by going to Nunney Castle and possibly have a quick look at a Long Barrow before heading back to the campsite in Wookey Hole.

Nunney Castle was well worth a visit!

After doing a large amount of walking today my legs were telling me to get in the car and go back to the campsite and get some food, my my brain said go and walk up a large hill – so off to Stoney Littleton Long Barrow it was then!!!

Stoney Little Long Barrow was the best example of a Long Barrow I have ever been to!  You have to crouch down on your hands and knees to go in and ideally need a torch (which I didn’t have as all the other Long Barrows I have been to you’ve not been able to go in too far so wasn’t expecting this one to be anything special).

To give you an idea of how important/incredible this Long Barrow is, if StoneHenge wasn’t our oldest National Monument then this would be it instead.  StoneHenge is around 6,000 years old and this Long Barrow (along with most of the others in the country) are around 5,000 years old, some say possibly even 5,500 years old so you can see how close to being the oldest National Monument they are.

All-in-all today was absolutely brilliant and going to Stoney Littleton was a fantastic end to my days exploring!

If you want to see more photos of the places I have been today then please look at my full photo galleries here:

Alfreds Tower Photo Gallery
Haynes International Motor Museum Photo Gallery
Muchelney Abbey Photo Gallery
Meare Fish House Photo Gallery
Glastonbury Market Cross Photo Gallery
Nunney Castle Photo Gallery
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow Photo Gallery

 
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