West Country Holiday, Somerset July 2006 - page 2
Continuing on our West Country holiday with a walk across Brean Down
and exploring Brean Fort, we enjoy an evening meal washed down with
Somerset cider and take a steam train ride on the West Somerset Railway to
Dunster and Minehead.
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The sun was back on day three in Somerset so we went to Brean Down to walk
along to the old fort. Here's Belinda taking a photo and
contemplating the zig-zag path up onto the peninsula. Ooo ar!
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Mike, new camcorder in hand, stops for a
breather half way up to Brean Down and looks back towards the beach and,
way in the distance, Burnham-on-Sea. We drove through endless tacky
holiday camps and caravan parks to get up here which was rather sole
destroying, but did have a good cup of coffee in one of the two the cafés
on arrival.
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On the top of Brean Down in Somerset in the West Country we walked across
the peninsula for about 1½ miles until we came to...
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...Brean Fort, where we enjoyed our picnic lunch while looking out across
the Bristol Channel to Weston-Super-Mare and the South Wales coast.
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Brean Fort was built in 1870 and last used in WW2 to defend Barry, Cardiff
and Bristol. Brean Fort links on our tourist
links page.
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Mike's somewhere in the old ruins at Brean Fort here, difficult to tell
one old ruin from another really! (Only joking!).
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We returned along the old military road on the north side of Brean Down
and were rewarded with some great views of Weston-Super-Mare and collected
some great video shots too.
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Back at beach level we relaxed after our Brean Down walk in the hot West
Country sunshine with an Ice Cream. Mmmm, nice! How did we get
this shot? See our camcorder review.
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On the way back to the cottage we stopped by Rich's Cider Farm and, er,
well bought some to try! How much have you had Mike? Ooo ar!
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Cheers! Back at the cottage we enjoyed some of the Rich's Somerset
cider (video clip), cooked a
delicious chicken dish and washed it down with some cider! Then we
had a bit more cider, then, well a bit more and, ar well, might as well
finish off the cider then! Ooo ar, Ooo ar, Ooo ar!
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Day four and it looks like the hot sun's back to stay so off we went to
ride on the West Somerset Railway from Bishops Lydeard, near Taunton, to
Dunster and Minehead. The fare was £12.40 for a Day Rover ticket
and the journey a little over an hour.
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Here's Belinda studying the West Somerset Railway timetable on the
train. We decided to stop off at Dunster as it promised a more
leisurely tourist experience than (we'd been forewarned) tacky Minehead
which was the train's ultimate destination.
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The station was a ten minute walk from Dunster running past quaint
houses. In Dunster we looked around the shops, the castle grounds
and just chilled in the atmosphere before looking for somewhere for lunch.
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We found a lovely café to lunch in in Dunster!
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We returned to the train and on up to Minehead, here the steam engine's
being filled with more water. See our West
Somerset Railway video clip.
The West Somerset Railway website is on our UK
tourist links page.
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We didn't stay long in Minehead (the forewarning was accurate!) and
returned on the next train to Bishops Lydeard.
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