It was raining heavily at breakfast but stopped by the time I Ieft. This luck stayed with me all day. I wasn't too sorry at leaving Weston. The sad state of both its piers is reflected in the town. There's a river at the south end of town after the more pleasant village of Uphill. It started raining so I got a bus round to Brean after which it stopped (the rain!). I was able to walk the six miles to Burnham on Sea on hard sand as the tide went out with amazing speed. It was my first long beach walk for some time and a relief to sea sand instead of mud. This landscape is familiar to me. The large areas called moors and levels are full of drains and ditches and totally flat. Small steep hills called knolls and tors stick up. Sedgemoor is probably the best known, part of which I crossed today. This is where willow is grown for weaving. With the wide Bristol Channel and the flat landscape the sky became huge. I could even see across to Cardiff millenium stadium. I also saw the next storm coming as the wind blew colder and stronger. The bus shelter had mostly blown away, but the bus amazingly arrived at the same time as the rain. Kaya had by this time arrived in Bridgwater where I was to meet her. It is quite a few miles inland up the river Parrett, so a bus was in order. Kaya had found a nice tudor hotel called The Tudor Hotel. I remembered Bridgwater for the bad egg like smell of its cellophane factory but it seems to have gone or maybe the wind is blowing it away. We found some nice things in town which they are working hard to restore. There are some very fine buildings from its heyday when it was a busy port. The tidal bore still comes up the river for a few days each month, alas the next one is May 24. Kings Square is very fine, off which is a whole street built by the Duke of Chandos. In it we found Bridwater Art Centre, which we returned to later to watch a documentary movie called Born into Brothels about kids living in the red light area of Calcutta. Thanks to Tim Leeney for doing the blog tonight and tomorrow.