Tuesday 14 September 2010

The West Country: Chard

Chard is a crappy town in Somerset. It's where I live. The shops here suck. The town centre is horrendously depressing.

But I'm allowed to say that. If anybody outside of Chard says it, you'll get a smack.


There are some nice places. The reservoir, for example, is very pretty. Nice bit of woodland, some meadows, some streams, the reservoir itself.

Plus Beau loves it there, which is good.



Then there's Forde Abbey. Which is really nice and again, dogs are allowed.

The abbey is really nice inside and the gardens are pretty. Plus there's a tearoom where you can get a proper cream tea. Yum.

If you visit their website, they usually do some sort of offer on the admission price.




Castle Neroche. Not in Chard, but pretty close. Great for dogs! There's also no castle there, but there used to be, though I've been there plenty of times and I've no idea where the castle was supposed to have been.

It's also quite easy to get lost wandering about!







Ferne Animal Sanctuary. Has animals. Including the cool pig on the left.

What more do you want?!

2 comments:

  1. Hehe. I'm exactly the same. I slag off Letterkenny/Donegal/ireland all the time, but if anyone else says a bad word about it I fly into a rage!

    Quite a few places around here don't allow dogs though, so at least you can take Beau with you to these places!

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  2. Yeah that's the good thing!

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