We leave the seaside town for the gentile coastal town which is a dormitory suburb of Bristol.I pass the Marina Lake and the old lifeboat station at Birnbeck Island, which I wonder if it will ever be restored.

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I escape from the city sprawl to the seaside.For the first 2-3 hours of today, I had to negotiate my way out of Bridgewater and make my way for 8 miles along the A38, a lot of which was dual carriageway.

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I make an early start today as I know it’s a long walk today. From the quaint harbour of Watchet with its narrow streets to the city of Bridgewater, famous for making cellophane.I walk out of Watchet and very soon come to a delightful Doniford Halt on the West Somerset Railway line which I notice is a request stop.

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Today,  I take in the rolling hills of the Somerset coastline to the seaside resort with the famous holiday camp.

I strode out of Porlock towards the neat village of Bossington. Continue reading →

Somerset greets me with a very stiff breezy mist with the threat of rain.

Due to the mist I decided to stick to the roads today, so I apologise to the purists who may think I should have stuck to the paths no matter what the weather was like. Continue reading →