After I left the Pier I wandered along the Promenade for a hot coffee to warm up and then continued towards the marina and Poet's Walk. Poet's Walk is in memory of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate who's thatched home still exisits and I have taken images of Tennyson house. Once reaching Wain's Hill beautiful panoramic views can be experienced of my Beautiful Somerset and the vast Atlantic Ocean, also the muddy estuary of the River Yeo. In Tennyson's time this spot would be much quieter, remoter and isolated--the sort of place I imagine a poet would need to conjure up magical words of love , life, death etc...Other poets have also wandered here and one is remembered in the church of St Andrew's who took his own life by plunging to his death from this beauty spot.--perhaps not always the best place to visit if you feel depressed or melancholic----for others it will lift the spirits--- such is the unpredictabilty of being human. Tennyson wrote many poems but! one of his most famous is 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' which I remember from Childhood--we had to learn all the verses.
