Susan, our B&B hostess was almost too much. The Alastair Sawday link meant she did the performance as it appears in the book. Breakfast was pure theatre as she made her entrances and exists through the sliding door between us and the kitchen catering to out needs. A host of tourists got off the Somerset Steam Railway and flooded little Watchet's lovely museum and coffee houses. The rain sent them indoors but we had to set off so Kaya could catch her bus connection from Minehead 10 miles away. The weather has become something of an issue again. The sky changed by the minute with black clouds sometimes just missing us and other times unleashing their contents. The path took a diversion inland at Blue Anchor. When we were able to look back we could see why - there had been a huge landslide. The walk into Minehead was along the beach but the tide was still too high to enjoy the hard sand so it was an uncomfortable pebble path for much of the way. Minehead still has it's huge Butlins which dominate the east side of the pretty town. We had coffee after which Kaya went off on the bus to Taunton to catch the Paddington train. I was sad to see her go and dragged my heels up to the hostel which I will use as a base for the first 3 days of the South West Coast Path. A large part of the evening was spent reading the Sunday Times in Wetherspoons. There has been so much rain that slugs are all over the pavements and it is cold - otherwise I'm fine!
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Hi Tom
As you are walking and writing I am practising my english reading your blog . I have just found out today that you were in Minehead and I suddenly remmember my first job there as a chalet maid for 9 weeks at Butlin's . A very strange place, hard work , poor pay but lots of friends and fun! I met my best english friend who I am going to visit in June on a shot trip to London. I bacame her dauhter's godmother . So even though Butlin's was not my cup of tea I owe them "friendship" .
Wales was also my first exhange as an au pair girl in a family in LLandrindol wales " or something like that " ....
a small village in Wales . That was a long time ago ....
Keep enjoying your walking and meeting so many nice people who seem to cook quite well!
Take care
Catheine

Hi Tom reading and enjoying your blog daily along with many others and think of you striding forth each day,... because you can and you want to. It has often been noted that every good story has some kind of journey in it because life is a journey and we love to feel we are going somewhere and having the adventures on the way and the memories of it afterwards. The westerly weather systems roll in and do their thing. It's wet here in sussex too and the deer have raided our garden and our neighbours' too and demolished cherished landlocked plants and bushes. Slugs abound. Walking seems a good thing to be doing from where I am. Hope you manage to keep dry enough. I doubt if the tent has much allure tho in these conditions!
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