Quaint little Canterbury

I got a SWEET hook-up from Nikki through her Arcadia program and got to go on a day trip with the Arcadia crew even though I came through SUNY New Paltz. If that means nothing to you, just know that I totally got to take advantage of the system today. First stop as a freeloader was Canterbury. Nikki and I walked around... saw some old stuff... lots of cobblestone... The highlight was probably Canterbury Cathedral. SUPER old. SUPER famous. Beautiful inside. Beautiful outside. Beautiful courtyard. I tried to take some decent photos. After the cathedral we wandered around some more... since I didn't know I was going here until the night before, I didn't plan very well... or at all, really... so I didn't even know what there was to see or do... so we did a lot of wandering. .. Then we found some park that I don't remember the name of, with a hill with some monument on top. We climbed the hill. You could see the city. It was... quaint, I suppose. I don't get as excited about visiting small towns in foreign countries, I think, because I grew up in a small town... probably why most of the places I've traveled to since I've been over here have been cities... From the top of this hill we were able to see some more old-looking stuff in the distance, and so we went to see what that was. It happened to be the Canterbury Castle... um, well... the remains thereof. There wasn't too much of it left. I got way too excited about this and took a bunch of pieces of the castle that were chipping off and were on the ground... ha. Yes, there's a good chance that they aren't necessarily from the original castle, but they totally COULD be, right? We'll just say they were. So now I have pieces of a super old castle, and if you're lucky, maybe I'll give you a piece.

Verdict on Canterbury: a GREAT place to visit for a day.
But probably just for a day.