Turkish Delight anyone?

Today we went to Wells Cathedral – our first wholly gothic cathedral without any Norman influences remaining – and walked around there a good bit.  There were a great many pointed arches and beautiful carvings (and yes I have pictures, patience – I am still dealing with the footage from last trip). 

We also got to wander around the High Street a little bit ~~  Side note: I am learning that pretty much every town has a “High Street” and that is basically English for “the main street” where all the commerce and food and busy bustle will be.  They had an open market today by chance that was very fun to wander around with lots to see and smell and taste.  I tried my first Turkish Delight and promptly bought some (lemon and rose – I like the lemon because it is familiar as a flavor, but rose tastes like you think a rose petal would, not unpleasant, but not quite expected either) and I also picked up a ball of really eccentric yarn that I saw some ladies demonstrating at their table which I hope to make a very ruffled fashion scarf with just as soon as I get round to it.

I think I enjoyed looking around the market at all the fresh produce, butchered meats, teas, yarn, baubles, pots, pans, quick bites, candies, fudge, cookies, etc and so on as much as I enjoyed the Cathedral itself.  We had a good hour for lunch when we arrived (it was a very long coach ride, two hours I think, maybe a bit more) so there was a lot of time to wander the town before we actually went in to admire the Cathedral and then depart.

We were intended to move on to Glastonbury and visit the Abbey there, which is really what’s left of an Abbey more than a whole structure really, but as it turns out today was also the Tour of Britain bike race or some such thing, and the site was closed in preparation for that function’s evening entertainment.  Our guide was quite perturbed at the lack of notice on their website.  We did see from a distance the Tor of Glastonbury – where Merlin supposedly lived for a while, and when we were driving back we went by Stonehenge – so I got to see that from the coach as well. 

We did get back in time for dinner unexpectedly because of the mix up, but they weren’t serving anything I fancied to put in my mouth other than a “jacket potato” (skin on potato) so after dinner when Alex suggested going out for ice cream I went (yay for Baileys  Cream deliciousness!) and hit the Posh Nosh on the way back home to get some onion rings and chicken nuggets.  I know it is all fried and probably horrible for me, but it tastes close to home too.

Here’s some more video from the Gloucester trip last week!