Butchery Lane

Wednesday 16th July: We couldn't stop walking around the streets of Canterbury when there were sights like this and the twilight evening was still balmy. This is a perfect place for a pub crawl, due to about every other building selling ales in welcoming establishments. I just had to publish our Butchery Lane view, so here it is....

Canterbury Cathedral

Wednesday 16th July: We were able to walk around the town and enjoy the sights and the areas around the river and the west tower gate and adjacent gardens and sculptures in the river. This is as close as we could get to the cathedral due to a religous convention which shut the doors to the cathedral grounds and the building itself. Oh well, we were able to see it lit up as seen in this picture.

Canterbury Weavers

Wednesday 16th July: We had Dinner at the Weaver's restaurant shown here. It is next to the River Stour, which was used to duck and try to drown suspected witches in mediaeval times. The river is very clean, although in times gone by it was quite dirty. This building was built in the 1500s and was a safe house for fleeing weavers from the continent. We were lucky to find a great B&B right in town, within the walls in the cobbled areas, literally 100m from this location. We had a room on the top floor with a view of the West Tower Gate. We'll come back here again one day for a longer stay!

Brighton & Eastbourne

Wednesday 16th July: Our holiday tour left Oxon, around the M25 madness, arriving at the Southern coast of England at Brighton for lunch. We also saw Ali for a quick visit, which was great 'cos its been so long! We continued along the coast (not recommended in retrospect due to the average 30 miles an hour or less), through Eastbourne (this is the pier) and Hastings, stopping at Rye and on to Canterbury in the garden of England in Kent. No-one could be seen swimming in the sea, although some were sitting in deckhairs or playing on the pebbles. Many were on the pier for the funfairs or rides.