I've only been to Brean Down once, in early June last year. An outlier of the Mendip Hills to the east, it stretches into the brown-blue waters of the Bristol Channel rising to about 100m above the beach and the water. I'd wanted to visit and walk its length for some time, its location combined … Continue reading A Quiet Life #3: Brean Down, Somerset, June 2019
Wales
Venta Silurum: a Roman town at Caerwent, Monmouthshire
It would be easy to miss Caerwent, a small village in South Wales. You might glance up as you drive by the Northgate House Bed and Breakfast, see the vestiges of a stone arch in the garden and think nothing of it. Off you’d go, none the wiser. But that would be a shame because … Continue reading Venta Silurum: a Roman town at Caerwent, Monmouthshire