Shelty visits Canterbury

Today, Kevin and I were able to show Chelsea (Shelty) the city of Canterbury, the best town in Europe. We started out with the Cathedral, one of the best in England. It is the cathedral for the archbishop and leader of the Church of England. 

Our friend, Esther, works at the Cathedral and told us about the rare secret wall paintings from the 1100's and the columns from the original cathedral from the 600's which we haven't seen before. Then we walked outside to the cloister and saw the backside of the King's School, the oldest school still running. It was founded in 597 by St. Augustine.

For lunch, we ate at The Old Weavers Restaurant. The building itself dates from 1500.

Shelty in front of the Weavers' House

Chili con carne for Shelty and leek and potato for Kevin.

After lunch, we walked around town seeing all the Christmas stands that are starting to pop up around town. By this time, our feet were getting a little tired so we decided to stop at our favorite Starbucks right next to the Cathedral. We watched the sunset over the cathedral as we sipped our hazelnut hot chocolate.

After this we went to Sainsbury to get groceries for this week and for our Thanksgiving potluck. We're going to make yams, stuffing and pumpkin pie. No turkey because our dorm ovens are too small. Thank you to Chelsea who flew 2 cans of pumpkin over from Nebraska because they don't have pumpkin here in England. 

Tomorrow we are going to Calais, France for the day. It should be a great day. Time to get some rest.