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Moseley Chimes
October 2008
This year the “annual day away” of the Monday Lunch Club took us to Minehead. We left promptly at 9:45 a.m. and with a half an hour break en route, travelled comfortably for about three hours arriving at the Promenade Hotel on the sea front which proved an excellent base. We were all at liberty to eat, sit, or explore until we rejoined for a generous home baked tea at 4:00pm.
Minehead’s small, snug harbour is at the end of Quay Street where several 17th century cottages with colour washed-walls and thatched roofs recall the history of a town whose records go back to Saxon times. The old part of the town is dominated by a 15th century church from whose tower lanterns were used to guide mariners home. The coastal path was well defined along the sea front where a miniature railway attracted many holiday makers. We rejoined the coach at 5:30pm anticipating arriving home about 8:30pm but we encountered a closure of the M5 just beyond Bristol and it was necessary to divert via the Severn Bridge and the M50 which added a further hour.
Again we express our thanks to Hilda and Julia for all the arrangements so efficiently made on our behalf. After a summer break of some weeks it was an added pleasure to have the opportunity of re-uniting with a number of our happy eating friends.