King Arthur

Spent Tuesday in Glastonbury, a town that combines history from pre-Christian times with the legends of King Arthur and the ruins of an Abbey destroyed during Henry the 8th's reign. Here's the Tor, a tower that marks the place a church used to stand. Legend says that this is where Avalon really lay, the magical island where King Arthur was taken at the end of his life. It's high on a very windy hill, which we almost got blown off.


The story is that King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are buried here on the grounds of what used to be one of the largest and finest Abbeys in England.



Here are the ruins of the Abbey, which was destroyed when Henry the 8th left the Catholic Church and started the Church of England.




Finally - here's a little cultural and language education. The British call a bathroom a "loo" - so here's Bruce checking out the doggie loo in one of the gardens. Just a mite smelly!