Thursday, September 17, 2009

Canterbury Tales

Today we came to rest our heads in the beautiful town of Canterbury. This is the neatest place we've been in so far in my opinion. We have the cutest little house on 6 Duck Lane which has three stories and a tiny patio.
We are about 5 min. from one of the biggest cathedrals in England - Canterbury. We did the tour of it this afternoon and saw the spot where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170! It is truly a wonder. The girls and I then left Mike at a pub to sample more beer while we went to a Canterbury Tales re-enactment. It went through 5 of the 29 stories from Chaucer's Tales. It was a little "cheesy" but the girls liked it and I've now exposed them to the Father of English Literature and it only cost $40!!! Tomorrow we're going to rent some bikes...yippy. This amazing building seems to literally leaning over the street to take a look - just look at the door. It's been on this street since the 1600's and Charles Dickens mentioned it in one of his books (can't remember which one). Jane

2 comments:

C Rempel said...

Your cottage is just ducky!

Jennifer Peters said...

I've been there!! :o)