A Day Out In Clevedon Town

I spent today hanging out with someone I met just as I got off the bus in Clevedon town. Turns out there's a market every week here, so we went there to have a look round. I got some sunflower rolls from the person selling different kinds of bread. Sadly the bread was in plastic packaging, but thought I would put 1 or 2 of them with the sun-dried tomatoes I bought from someone else who sells them and olives and things, then the people who live here can have the rest of them. The sun-dried tomatoes were in packaging today, but then I didn't take any containers with me because I didn't know there was a market on today. I did ask though if I had my own container could I put things in there and she said absolutely. :) There was a cheese stall and a fish/meat stall. I didn't buy anything from those or the yarn stall. Sadly a lot of the yarn was acrylic anyway. One pretty nice thing I did see was some clothes made from recycled saris. I asked a bit about what the actual material is and they're made from viscose (in this case the bark of a tree). I did get a crystal pendant on a chain from someone selling crystals and things. I can't remember what stone it is, but it has different colors going through it. The chain is silver-plated, but thankfully the base metal is not nicol. We went to a restaurant for lunch and I had a rather large mushroom stroganev with some leaves of lettuce and some really thin flat bread. I don't know what bread it was, but it was thinner than popadoms. I also had some lemone grass tea, which I found pretty refreshing. We had a bit of a look around the shops. I originally planned to go to Holland And Barett and see if they have any laundry soap nuts. I've heard people on youtube talking about them and seen them listed on amazon, but really want to be able to just pick things up in person. Well it turned out the people in Holland And Barett have never heard of them. I'm not surprised because I only heard of them this year, but of course they gave me the usual stock answer of look online. Thankfully there is a shop whose name I can't spell on Gloucester Road in Bristol and they ordered some earlier in the week anyway since they forgot, so they should have them by Tuesday afternoon. We also came across a gift shop which had some really nice things like candles and coasters etc. Annoyingly though the person working in the shop couldn't tell me what the candles were made from apart from "natural wax". I gathered that, but that doesn't tell me if it's bees' wax or soy/coconut wax or what it actually is. My companion pointed out a fish and chip shop as well, so I asked the person in there what they cook the chips in and they said olive oil, but then pointed out that everything is all cooked in the same frier with the fish and sausages. So I totally gave that shop a miss. I was thinking some chips would be tasty as well. There's at least 1 bakery in the area we were in, so when the person I was hanging out with mentioned there were breads for sale, I went in and spoke to the person working in there. They can wrap the bread in plastic bags or they can put them in paper instead, and they'll even slice the bread as well! I totally forgot to ask about vegan pastiel and things but there's always another time. After all that we went to the beach and were looking at and collecting rocks for a bit. We separated at the bus stop when I wanted to come back to the place I'm staying at until Saturday. Turns out the bus driver doesn't know the route he's paid to drive. Why are the drivers not expected to know the names of the stops on the route! There's little to no point relying on GPS even if I wanted to, because although it works at times, more often than not I still end up getting off too early or too late. And so once again I had to tell at least 2 more people the stop I wanted to go to so they could find it.