Road Trip Part 4 - Cheddar, Glastonbury, Devizes, Home!

From Padstow we drove straight to the B&B at Cheddar. I've always wanted to visit Cheddar - because of it's name (I imagined a lot of cheese) but actually cheddar cheese wasn't named after the place, but is the word cheddar is a way of processing cheese.

Our little B&B was called Chedwell Cottage, and we found this place because another B&B had us double booked and referred us to this place. We were given a room for 3 people - one double and one single bed, but that was fine. The host, Sue, was very friendly and invited us to sit in the lounge (with other guests) for some tea and to relax and chat, so we were not confined to our room. For dinner, we walked down to the high street and had some Indian (I think we were hankering for some spicy food after days of eating mild English food!)

The next morning we got served the biggest breakfast I have ever seen, before we checked out and headed to the Cheddar Gorge, another reason for our visit here. Here we visited the caves... all very interesting, and clean - unlike Batu Caves, although some parts reminded me of Sam Poh Tong. Although the outside looked huge, the areas where we can visit weren't really very big at all... For example, in this photo, the cave was only about 2 feet from ceiling to the water level, like a miniature. There were some much larger caverns but all still small by comparison to those in Malaysia.

A short walk from the Caves was the Cheddar Gorge Cheese factory, where we saw part of the cheese making process (it only had a small lab where they make cheese a couple of times a day and depending on when you arrive you see different parts of the process). It was heaven for Lee Ling as she loves cheese, so a visit to the shop was a must!!

For lunch, we stopped at a tea room, where Friend A Sook and I had cream tea (one scone with clotted cream and strawberry jam and cup of tea) and Lee Ling had an ice cream sundae (ice cream hand made on the premises). We were actually still full from breakfast to need a proper lunch.

Next stop - Glastonbury. Not for the festival (well it's not started yet) but I wanted to visit the historical sites such as the Tor, Glastonbury Abbey and Chalice Wells. We only managed to go to Glastonbury Abbey as the Tor was on a hill (but we did see it from a distance) and we were short of time. Apparently they found the tombs of King Arthur and Guinevere at the Abbey, now just marked by a sign in the approximate area!

Heading back to London, we stopped by at Chester's place in Devizes. My aunt was also visiting there so we stayed for a chat and dinner before heading back to London. For that weekend, we travelled 620 miles. It was quite tiring as most of the trip was spent in the car but at least now I can say I've been to Devon and Cornwall.