{"id":255,"date":"2008-10-29T03:55:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-10-29T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:03:16","slug":"travelogue-church-yards-and-abbeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/29\/travelogue-church-yards-and-abbeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue: Church Yards and Abbeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent our last night in Wales at the Baskerville Arms <\/a>Hotel in Clyro<\/a>, walking distance from Hay-on-Wye.\u00a0 The hotel takes its name from the Arthur Conan Doyle story and some believe he drew his inspiration from stories in this area.I took an early morning walk through the church yard.\u00a0 We had been seeing them along the drive and walked through a few with their old trees and grave markers.\u00a0 This one was lovely with ivy covered stones, the view of the Welsh hills beyond, and the old village houses on all sides.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Then, it was ruined abbey day.\u00a0 We started at Tintern Abbey, along the Wye River.\u00a0 It’s amazingly well preserved despite the lack of a roof.\u00a0 The interpretation is very good; they really help you visualize what it looked like in the 12th century.\u00a0 It wasn’t crowded and I found myself waiting for the monks to come from the chapter house.\u00a0 Took time to read Wordsworth’s poem<\/a> out of the volume I bought in Hay-on-Wye the day before.\u00a0 We had lunch at the little tea room across the road.\u00a0 Despite having beautiful weather to see the Abbey, it started to rain and hail so we stayed for an extra cup of coffee and I had a slide of Banoffee Pie<\/a>.\u00a0 Then, it was a quick dash to our car and on to Glastonbury.<\/p>\n

The weather was awful as we cruised the motorway.\u00a0 Rain, the<\/a>n a little snow even.\u00a0 We wondered if it was worth heading to Glastonbury but we persevered and by the time we got there it had stopped raining and the sun came out.\u00a0 Glastonbury is where the monks found the supposed grave of Arthur and Guinevere and I felt like I had to make the pilgrimage.\u00a0 Of course, it might have just been a 12th century hoax to bring money to an ailing community.\u00a0 The site is marked even though the stone and remains are gone.\u00a0 Glastonbury, like most abbeys including Tintern, was basically torn down during Henry VIII’s disolution.\u00a0 All the good stuff–windows, lead, decorations–were taken and sold.\u00a0 There is little left of Glastonbury but it is still an impressive ruin sitting right in the middle of town.<\/p>\n

Because of its ties to Joseph of Arimathea and Arthur and Merlin, Glastonbury has turned into something of a new age town.\u00a0 Lots of magic shops and flyers advertising healing and tarot readings.<\/p>\n

We made it into Salisbury without incident.\u00a0 We are staying at the Rokeby Guest House<\/a>, an Edwardian brick house which is just a ten-minute walk to the city center.\u00a0 We made the walk last night to eat at Harper’s Restaurant.\u00a0 Had a lovely supper and today we are ready to explore the cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent our last night in Wales at the Baskerville Arms Hotel in Clyro, walking distance from Hay-on-Wye.\u00a0 The hotel takes its name from the Arthur Conan Doyle story and some believe he drew his inspiration from stories in this area.I took an early morning walk through the church yard.\u00a0 \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-47","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}