Tintern Abbey - May 25 - Day 10

Heather got new boots (mostly for work) before heading off to Britain, so she brought them along so she could test them out before going wandering around the bush looking for shinies.  It was therefore decided that we would go on a hike.

It was decided that Tintern Abbey would be a good place for said hike to begin.  It was a very nice, old abbey that, like so many old things in Britain, has a serious lack of roof.  It was built about 900 years ago by a bunch of monks who didn't like fancy things.  This distaste of fancy things was later abandoned, so some of the walls are really quite impressive.

After visiting the abbey, we headed over the bridge (into England) and up the hill to the Devil's Pulpit, which was apparently placed there by the devil to tempt monks away from the abbey.  I fail to see why, since it's a lot of effort to climb up a hill.  You do get quite  lovely view from the top, though.

After lunch, we climbed back down the hill again via a meadow, Daleks, an old railway station, and  a funny looking circle of wooden stations of crazy dead guys (and also a mermaid).

Eventually we ended up back at the abbey.  And then we went home.