Month: May 2025

An entirely different side of Cheddar. Whilst the tourists frequent the numerous coffee shops and visit the caves I was there on other business. Cheddar is only a small town but it punches well above its weight with regard to the presents of creative artists, photographers, sculptors, those with a cultural attitude to life. I'm ashamed to say that in my 12 to 15 years of visiting Cheddar I never...

There are no less than three arts trails which start today so after breakfast  we jumped in the car and arrived at a place called Blagdon. It is in the Chew Valley and a very old village. You can tell it is old by the very small gardens, picture-esque though they may be, and streets that are not widen enough for parking but we stopped first as an artist called Chris Holden who had lived in...

How to please a guest I want to come back now to the topic of giving a guest the best possible experience. First, I think it's much easier to please a single person than a couple because very few couples I know have identical interests and one will tag along for the sake of the other and this does keep the energies down a little bit. Friday morning we had a nice breakfast with croissants and so...