Speeding up...

Another day, another English county...

Pleasures

• The Exe valley north of Tiverton. A gentle ascent through ancient woodlands. Why isn't this as well-known as the Wye Valley? Beautiful.
• Wiveliscombe: just inside Somerset. Unwrecked hilltop town. And hurrah for the cheery antipodean lady who gave me the lowdown on the towns cafe options.
• Lunch in Taunton with my old friend Geoff. Wonderful. 
• Whizzing through a maze of lanes on the Somerset levels (not all that level)
• And today I have not been obliged at all to get off and push - a fact that is down to geography, not increased leg-power.

And now I am in Glastonbury. Not quite my cup of tea. A much stranger brew. Many of the shops seem to be selling rather, er, 'esoteric' goods and services.

And a wee podcast in which I muse on tattoos and tranquillity - and receive a decibel-heavy kickback (which my recorder makes sound rather distant)