Water, Water Everywhere

Our trip turned out a little wet. Southern England had a major storm and flooding two weeks before we arrived. I don't think things had really recovered yet, when the week we were there brought plenty more rain. There was water everywhere.

We started feeling uncertain about this road, so decided to turn back. I had to get out of the car to help direct the turning around process, so took the opportunity to snap a picture.

Just as well we turned around, because apparently our GPS directed us to a road "Unsuitable for motor vehicles". If it wasn't raining so hard, we would have got out and walked the last bit just to see how the road got any worse than it already was. 

New Year's Day we purposely headed out in the rain for a little country walk. We both felt the countryside was so beautiful, that it made the walk enjoyable, rain or no rain.

I put my bargain-priced Target rain boots to the test, and they came out swimmingly.

One day we stopped by the town of Bradford-upon-Avon. Can you see how high the river water is on the bridge, and how it's spilling out onto the sidewalk?

Some of the shops near the river had boarded and sealed the bottoms of their doorways. I'm not sure if it was leftover from the previous flooding, or preparing for the next day's flood warnings.

We managed to travel safely around and keep to our vacation plans, with the exception of needing to cut out a trip to Avebury due to a flooded road. (This isn't the closed road - we managed this one fine).

Our hike up to the Glastonbury Tor showed us flooded fields in every direction. I hope the flooding isn't causing too much pain and trouble for the people living and working in Somerset. As tourists, we managed to have a fun vacation even with all the water.