Dunster

The day started with Sophie arriving in our bed at 6.30 this morning, wanting to discuss which lower case letters were ascenders and which were descenders; presumably they’d been doing this in school and she’d certainly remembered all the terminology.

After we’d dropped her off at school we drove on to Dunster near Minehead for a stroll round the grounds of the castle, the NT property on the hill in the distance in the blip, then a walk in the village’s  Main Street. 

The building in the foreground is the Yarn Market. The village was a centre of the wool trade, and later the cloth trade, in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Yarn Market was built in 1609 to provide protection from the elements for the cloth merchants selling their wares. I thought the mono treatment  suited its timeless feel.

Dunster is a real tourist hot spot under normal circumstances but was eerily quiet today.

We went on to Blue Anchor Bay on the coast a couple of miles away and sat outside a cafe with a sandwich and coffee for lunch, then had a stroll along the seafront. In the 12th Century Dunster itself was a seaport but the sea receded, leaving it high and dry in land.