Selworthy I fell in love with is a very small village and civil parish near Minehead, England where I lived between 2007 and 2010. When I moved to England I found myself in Exmoor National Park in Somerset County. Selworthy is not far from Minehead only 5 km.
How I ended up in this beauty? Back in 2007 I was learning English in a small college in Minehead, where my English teacher talked about cream tea and especially this cream tea meant to be really good, because it is served with the clotted cream that is made in Somerset. She mentioned Selworthy, where a very nice cream tea was available. Of course I had no idea what a cream tea is as I have never heard about it before. She did not tell us what comes with it and how to drink it. I was surprised when they served it to me. Let's not rush ahead so fast I am going to talk about how I had it later.
Now let's take a look at our walk to Selworthy from Minehead. Yes that's right we walked that 5 km distance as no public transport was available for us at that time. So what we did, we found a route online, printed it out and followed the path. We did not regret it. The scenery that we walked through was amazingly beautiful. We walked through open fields amongst sheeps and woods.
We are on our way to Selworthy through this open field.
Then we saw some sheeps.
Continued our trip on our path that lead us into a wood, then finally we found that house what we were looking for. It doesn't look like we are going to get some tea here.
Let't get closer and have a look inside. Oh yes we were sure now that we finally arrived to our destination and went into the tea room. It was indeed really cosy inside, but we decided to take our place in the back garden as the weather was really nice that day.
So here we are finally took our table and we were served with our cream tea. Here I want to mention that I had no idea what I saw. It was jam, scones, clotted cream and a pot of tea. So how am I suppose to have this? Well I thought it is a cream tea so let's put the clotted cream into the tea and stir it up. Do not laugh out loud! That's what I did and I immediately saw other people are looking at me watching what I was doing. I soon realised I was doing something that I am not supposed to do. At least I did something right tho, I spread the jam onto the scones. Later I told my teacher that we visited the tea room and how I had the cream tea. We were all laughing and she explained to me how it's done properly in Somerset. Yes because it does matter what you put first onto the scone the clotted cream or the jam. It all depends where you are in England.