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36/52 - Walking Glastonbury
Sep. 6th, 2020 02:16 pmOne of my new[ish] Southampton friends invited me to go on a road trip with her to Glastonbury yesterday to walk up the Tor and generally have a day out. It was a very long journey thanks to the always-over-capacity A303 and then a 3-car pile up on the way home which brought us to a standstill for an hour (punctuated only by a bomb squad van coming down with blue lights on and parting the stationary traffic).
We had a good day. She's very easy to talk to, very good at something I am terrible at (asking for more information on topics she doesn't understand or know about if I raise them, and then listening carefully to my explanations), and very nice to be around. I am glad of being friends with her.
The Tor was sort of underwhelming. It's a lovely view from the top but I would have liked it much more if it had been deserted. The numbers of people - I suspect quite few in the grand scheme of things - just milling around made it feel like a place you couldn't just stand and take in. We kept moving.
After we walked into the town we got lunch and then went into the Abbey grounds (wildly overpriced) which were lovely. Again, more people than I really would have liked but in many ways I enjoyed it more there than I did up on the Tor. The afternoon light was beautiful and it was warm and pleasant in the very particular way sunny September days are.
I am looking forward to owning a car again so I can be the architect of such days, rather than co-pilot.
We had a good day. She's very easy to talk to, very good at something I am terrible at (asking for more information on topics she doesn't understand or know about if I raise them, and then listening carefully to my explanations), and very nice to be around. I am glad of being friends with her.
The Tor was sort of underwhelming. It's a lovely view from the top but I would have liked it much more if it had been deserted. The numbers of people - I suspect quite few in the grand scheme of things - just milling around made it feel like a place you couldn't just stand and take in. We kept moving.
After we walked into the town we got lunch and then went into the Abbey grounds (wildly overpriced) which were lovely. Again, more people than I really would have liked but in many ways I enjoyed it more there than I did up on the Tor. The afternoon light was beautiful and it was warm and pleasant in the very particular way sunny September days are.
I am looking forward to owning a car again so I can be the architect of such days, rather than co-pilot.
