A Canterbury Street

A pair of the many stylish businesses in the center of Canterbury, England. We were on our way to lunch after a fascinating tour of Canterbury Cathedral. Our guide was charming, well-informed and consistently entertaining. She left us with a much enhanced sense of the importance and complexity of the cathedral's history, as the hub of England''s established church.

It was again grey, with a misty drizzle for part of the day, but outright rain in the evening. We lunched at the Parrot, a pub in a 14th century building, one of the oldest in the city; though restored, we felt ourselves transported back at least a century (or two?). The young customs official who admitted us at Heathrow told us about the pub (he had been at university in Canterbury).