The Tor continues

Today, finally the chance arose to visit letter G of my driving alphabet tour of the Southwest. It was a lovely sunny day here (and still is!) so I decided to head to Glastonbury, just 40 minutes away from home.  I had decided that I would like to see the Abbey and the Tor there.
I arrived in the town and headed for the Abbey car park.  That was full as were most of the other car parks! I ended up parking in Morrisons and having to go shopping in Morrisons, so that I would be a 'customer' and so allowed to park there for a little while!  That was OK because I needed to get some lunch!
The first things I noticed as I drove into 'Glasto' were the not -so -common- in- other places hairstyles and fashions that I saw quite a few people wore.
By the time I had walked from Morrisons into the centre of town and to the Abbey entrance I was absolutely drenched!  So drenched that my jeans were stuck to my skin and my hair looked like I had just come out of the shower!
The only places open to shelter seemed to be new age, crystal, witchcraft and other shops and I did not really want to go in to them to keep out of the rain.
I have heard from friends who have visited the town that it has an interesting' atmosphere, so I knew what to expect really.  The first thing that hit me apart from the not so- common- in -other places fashions and hairstyles that I saw quite a few people wore was the smell of incense and other interesting smells wafting from the shops as I walked through the town.
I would have loved to have seen the Abbey and climbed the Tor, but today was not the day to do it!  I was just SO wet so decided to get back to the car and head home via the Morrisons petrol station - saved me a trip to the one here on my return!
I would have liked to have put up some photos of my trip, but the weather was so bad that I did not take any! I could barely see anything with the rain pouring down!

I will add a few photos here from Google images so you can see what I would have seen, had I not been so wet! 
Well, I would add an image or two if blogger would let me!  Its playing up!  Good job I don't have any photos of my own to upload or I would be quite annoyed that it is refusing to upload any pictures at all! 

I will try a couple of links instead!  Click on them to see some photos and read all about their fascinating history.

Glastonbury Tor

and    Glastonbury Abbey

Hopefully letter H will provide sunshine and opportunity to take some nice photos and hopefully blogger will let me upload those photos!  It seems to be having a bit of an 'off' day today as its having problems saving my blog to drafts every other minute too!

'Think I will end here and  I will see you soon from somewhere beginning with H!