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A Mere interlude – Day 4

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Monday, 3rd October 2011 Today we leave Mere to make our way home but we are going back via Avebury. We have been to Avebury before and there are pictures on the main web site but we are going again so you'll just have to put up with it. On our last visit we didn't [...]

A Mere diversion – Day 3

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Sunday, 2nd October 2011 Today we are going to foreign climes – yes, we are leaving Wiltshire and venturing into Somerset. Today is Frome day! Frome (pronounced 'froom') is a small market town about 10 miles from Mere, to the north, and about the same distance east of Wells. Needless to say it didn't take [...]

A Mere peregrination – Day 2

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Saturday, 1st October 2011 After yesterday's walk we decided to have an easy morning looking round Mere. Our B&B is a very short distance from the High Street and the first thing we see is the 16th century George Inn which is the (apparently) timber-framed building in the foreground. I say 'apparently' because the George [...]

A Mere jaunt – Day 1

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Friday, 30th September 2011 This turned out to be a trip to anywhere! The current spell of fine weather was forecast to start from Tuesday 27th September, which it did, and to go on for about 7 days. Unfortunately we had a funeral to attend on Tuesday and I had a long standing dental appointment [...]

A later date.

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At the end of my last post I said "we plan to return for more at a later date" – this is that later date on a Sunday. We came back to the City of London, as distinct from the City of Westminster and the West End, and started from the Monument this time. We [...]

Nothing!

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I was going to write a post about our last day trip but I had to postpone it because we went off on a 3 day trip from which we have just returned. So I'm not posting anything here but just letting you know what you've missed. I will post about our day trip then [...]