Food & Drinks

In this English town, it is always sunny

(And Chris Martin is coming too)

By
Somerset

After seeing Coldplay at Glastonbury Festival, I crossed ‘someday-go-to-Coachella’ off my wishlist and replaced it with Glastonbury. A lot cheaper (because it's nearby), better for the world (because it's nearby), and let's especially cherish what is close.

I would take it a bit broader than Glastonbury (there you mainly have the festival, but that's only once a year, in the last weekend of June), but you won't find much more than Stonehenge. Somerset is, however, the place you want to go. It's rural, it's hilly, it has a mild maritime climate, and due to its location relative to the Azores, you often have high-pressure areas. In summer, the average temperature is 21 degrees.

The area is known for the apple orchards where local apple cider is made.

For where to eat and sleep, I did my research at Bart’s Boekje because I just find her an amazing taste compass and you know she has actually been there.

You eat here:

The Old Pharmacy
That's really an old pharmacy; the building is 500 years old. On an old blackboard, the menu is written where you mainly find shared dining dishes that are almost all made with ingredients from their own farm. There is also a small shop where you can buy all sorts of nice things.

Sleeping

In The Bradley Hare
It's not big, ten rooms, so very boutique hotel-like, but in the evening, the whole area gathers here for drinks. I imagine it a bit like Jude Law's neighborhood pub The Holiday in mind. According to Bart’s Boekje, you also have those nice big keys with which you lock your hotel room. I find that so much more fun than those boring plastic cards.

Here you drink wine and eat small bites:

The Beckford Bottle Shop
A wine shop and a bistro with BIB-Gourmand rating. They serve small dishes, English cheeses, delicious charcuterie, and more than thirty wines that you can order by the glass. I always love that.

And after seeing Chris Martin with Michael J. Fox at Glastonbury, it is a thousand percent certain for me that I will go to Glastonbury Festival in 2025. And then cruise through Somerset afterwards.

Source: Bart’s Boekje