Stamps And Letters: Glastonbury Tor mailart

Glastonbury Tor mailart

Glastonbury Tor mailart from:

Elsie Rosam, work colleague, friend, Positively Postal supporter and Glastonbury fan.

Apart from the annual mudfest, the town of Glastonbury offers the uninitiated a unique flavour of mystery and character. It entices you down the lanes and haunts to the colourful shops selling crystals, beads, scented aromas and all kinds of 1960’s therapeutic magic and paraphanelia.

Situated between two hills, Glastonbury is guarded by the sacred landscape of The Tor with St. Michael's Tower silhouetted on the summit and the famous Glastonbury Holy Thorn bush on Wearyall Hill opposite.

At the foot of the Tor are the Chalice Gardens where you can hear and taste the healing waters. Walking around this tranquil place fills me with reverence. Spends a few minutes at the Chalice Wall and I am at peace with nature.

Back in the centre of the town, hiding between the shops, is the entrance to the Abbey grounds, giving no clue to the explosion of space and majesty of the once huge, but now in ruins, important ecclesiastical monument.

It is said that King Arthur and Guinivere still sleep side by side in the nave of this great Abbey Church. Avalon in death protects the legend of King Arthur as I gaze on the two graves.

Stay a few days in this historic part of Somerset and you can forget, like I do, the bustle of modern existence. Just surrender to the unique mystical vibration that is Glastonbury.