Durdle Door and the Jurassic Coast

Stonehenge, Wiltshire.

Bath Abbey, the Roman Baths and the Pump Rooms.

Avebury, Wiltshire.

Here are just a small selection of photos of potential destinations for day trips from Glastonbury. Others include: Salisbury, Winchester, Kingston Lacy, Wimborne Minster, Tolpuddle, Dorchester & Hardy’s Cottage, Cerne Abbas, Yeovilton, Charlestown, Penzance, St Ives, Tintagel, Clovelly, Ilfracombe, Lynton & Lynmouth, Doon Valley, Exmoor, Porlock Wier & Village, Minehead (West Somerset Steam Railway to Taunton), Nether Stowey (home of S Coleridge), Watchet, the Quantocks. Of coarse, the list should include the many coastal points of interest of Southern England all the way around to the Principality of Wales. Or, is there somewhere you have in mind?

More about your driver: I know something or a lot about each of these places named above, Why? As a mature and educated Bathonian, I have travelled, lived and worked in Somerset (and the surrounding counties) most of my life and I lived on Exmoor for a year. In most cases I can offer both informative and anecdotal commentary to your visit. For example. You may be interested to learn about a character called Pope, who lived in Bath around the early 1900’s and how a wanted violent criminal became to be honoured by the chief of the local constabulary. Or, How by using intuitive construction techniques and strategies, early Victorian 4/5 story terraced buildings came to dominate the landscape of the eastern fringes of City of Bath despite being built on a flood plain with the help of Messrs Wood I, Wood II and Nash. Or, how to tell an Exmoor pony from the rest. Or, why North Somerset Coastal Rock Limpets are the shape they are? Or, Where in Somerset and in which week of the year is best to watch Peregrine adults teach their young to stoop pigeon.