The Ancient Mariner

'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.'

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We've been in Watchet on the North Somerset Coast today with Chris, Kate, Joel and Sophie and had lunch in the pub where Coleridge is reputed to have started writing his famous poem while on a seaside jaunt with is friend William Wordsworth.

The above quote, the first words the Mariner speaks to the poor old wedding guest, is on the pub wall and this statue of the eponymous sailor stands on the harbour front.

Lots of people enjoying the sunshine and the West Somerset steam railway which has a station by the harbour.