Gorgeous Glastonbury

Ever since I first read one of my all-time favorite books, The Mists of Avalon, about the Arthurian legend of Camelot, I’ve wanted to visit Glastonbury, and today that’s just what we did. I can’t tell you about it better than the official websites can, so instead I’ll mostly post pics today.

Jeff and I climbed the Glastonbury Tor and then visited the Chalice Well, before spending the day in the funky little town center.

The Tor corresponds to the fabled Isle of Avalon, although it’s no longer surrounded by water. We camped at the foot of the Tor at a beautiful campsite, with a view of St. Michael’s Tower right out the front door of our camper.

To get to the top, you have to first climb up a steep back road that eventually brings you to a gated field full of sheep, whose job is to keep the grass cut. They do an excellent job and mostly ignore the humans walking through their meal.

Except these guys. They weren’t thrilled with our presence and scampered away.

Fortunately, there are a few resting places on the way to the top.

It’s a heavy duty climb, but doable, even for old farts like us. In fact, we were soon joined by a tour group of people much older than we are, so we quickly stopped moaning about how hard it was.

Even so, it was a real accomplishment!

By the way, that’s our camper down there.

We climbed down the other side of the hill and then visited the Chalice Well gardens, which are exquisitely beautiful. This blog is already getting too long, so I won’t add any more photos … like yesterday’s blog about Stonehenge, my photos are of the same things that others have posted, so I’ll leave it at this photo of the Well.

Also, if you go in to town, check out Knight’s fish and chips shop. It’s really good!

Before I go, here’s you a cover of a book about the Dogs of Camelot:

Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her current passion-project is a series of metaphysical comedy novels. The first is entitled The Poppet Master (previously published as Be Careful What You Witch For!, now revamped and with a new ending). The Poppet Master is a modern-day fairy tale about Lola Garnett, a bored housewife and office drone who wakes up with unexpected psychic abilities, and no instruction manual, and Twink, the reluctant, sarcastic faery assigned to assist and educate her. The Poppet Master will be available in summer 2019. Its sequel is in the works.

Lisa is also writing The Maxwell Curse, a fictionalized version of a story she found in her own ancestral lineage about a witch trial, a generational curse, and massive mine explosion, all of which left ripples of destruction in their wake, devastating one family’s tree.