Canterbury Cathedral

This was the perfect day to be out and about at the southeast part of England. Today the International Office headed to Canterbury with two coach loads of international students. I always feel so invigorated when i travel! So much more because i travelled with Desiree, Franziska and Lian. I met Lian from the Norwich trip last week and we had a blast roaming around Lord Nelson's county. I had a fun time meeting the very lively Franziska as well. Photo entry today is of the cathedral with Desiree and Franziska on the foreground.

We spent a good amount of our time inside the Cathedral which was sooo beautiful with a very good degree of history to it. We also had a nice time sitting on a park bench. All four of us, squeezed out butts in one bench eating our sandwiches, burgers and biscuits while admiring this weird looking tree that we have agreed to describe as a huge version of an ant hill. 

Lian and I headed to the Canterbury Tales too and was treated to a glorified storytelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It was OK although i would have probably liked going on a river tour. 360 View of Canterbury from the top of Dane John's Mound was amazing. It was not high enough though so you can't see the whole exterior of the nave of the cathedral. But being able to see the cathedral towers from there was enough for me. We visited Norwich ruins as well. It wasnt as impressive as the Kenilworth castle ruins but it was nevertheless worth to experience being within the walls of a thousand year old structure.

An unfortunate event happened to our coach on our way out of the city. The coach drove past this very narrow road where the Westgate Tower is standing. As our enormous coach is trying to squeeze into this tiny road, a window hit the left column of the tower and it broke. Good thing that the coach had installed tempered glass and so it did not really break into pieces and no student was harmed. It was still scary though. The driver inspected the damage and said that we can drive back without the harm of it breaking into pieces.