Getting all hippy at Glastonbury!

Finally got to get our old hippy on at Glastonbury!

Glastonbury is one of those places that mixes the new religions with the very old pagan religions all in one spot. You can go and sit next to sacred wells and then climb up to the Glastonbury Tor and then visit the ruined Abbey where King Arthur was buried before the monks exhumed him.

The hippies have taken over a portion of Glastonbury and each of their shops is filled to the brim with gems, trinkets, incense and all manner of things witchy and magical. People walk around wearing lots of colour and velvet. They have flowers in their hair and have a lovely smile on their faces as if they are very happy with the world they have created - and indeed it rubs off.

People spend lots of money and the goods are exquisite!
Every item is beautiful and well crafted - I actually saw very little kitch and I am rather an 'expert' in new age stuff lets say.

The alley ways are a small magical portal into other worlds and are all begging you to enter following the wafting fragrances of incense of all types.

We actually found it very difficult to leave as there seemed to be just one more shop to go into and then another and then another. I could have done with a whole day just perusing the shops and the streets - just exploring.

The early afternoon saw us travel to Wells - another Cathedral city.
This one seemed so far removed from the 'hocus pocus' of Glastonbury that it just did not feel right.
It was too neat, too tidy and the town was overwhelmed by the Cathedral and its school buildings.

Interestingly, the very next night, I was watching some television before going to bed and "Elizabeth" the movie with Kate Blanchett was on. Low and behold I recognised those corridors and those stained glass windows in many of the scenes - I had just been there the day before!
It was Wells Cathedral.