Days Forty THREE AND FORTY FOUR. Wine and Canterbury

Days FORTY THREE AND FORTY FOUR.  Wine and Canterbury.  Friday morning was a bit lazy.  I didnt have to be to school tell 130 for my exam results, and then for a wine class at 3pm.  I passed my cooking exam.  Yippee.  As for the wine class, I doodled more on my paper than paid attention to what was being said.  2/4 other non drinkers didnt even come to the class, and attendance was not even taken.  Lame.  I did learn some nice things about wine.  There was a tasting at the end with a red & white wine.  Those that did taste, there faces said it all....it was terrible (after class they said for being such anexpensive school you wouldnt think that they would serve cheap wine), so I was not missing out on anything.  I didnt have any Friday night plans, and others in my group did, so I went home, made dinner, talked to Mel, texted Lisa, wrote some emails and went to bed.  

My tube ride home from school Friday night, I texted my two outside of school friends to see what they were doing on Saturday. Dierdre was working, and Mindy (nice girl at church) was going to Canterbury with a friend visiting from the states.  I didn't even know what Canterbury was but I invited myself along.  I google imaged it and it looked nice.  

I met Mindy and friend at her flat, we took a bus to Victoria Station, and off we went on a train ride through the countryside to Cantebury.  It was a lovely village town, with a stone wall surronding the old city and a more modern mall, further around the wall and into the old part of town was a delightful village filled with many people... the stacked Tudor and other really old buildings lined the streets...some had dates on them as old as 1545.  Amazing to think what these walls have seen over all the years.  First stop was lunch at a pub.  The sandwhich was massively large...the size of my face.  Not joking.  The bread slices were 2" thick each.  Then filled with veggies it was overwhemling figuring out how to eat it.  Luckilly the bread was super soft & easilly edible.  I must have been starving because I ate the whole thing, side salad, and a soup.  No shame.  It was good.  It was nice sitting at lunch and hearing birds chirping rather than cars rolling by.  Then we walked the street a bit more and explored the library and a shop before heading to the church...it was massive.  We spent 2.75 hours there.  I dont think I've ever wandered around a church for that long, but there was so much to see.  Architecture, Stained glass, pillars, crypts, gardens, chapels, archways, graves.... oh yah Henry IV is buried there with his wife.  No big deal, I saw a king today.  

Englanders know how to have a life outside of work, and the town was closing down by 530.  We looked in a few more shops before taking the train back to London.  We had dinner in Victoria Station at a Sushi place, one with a conveyor belt of foods rotating around.  Pretty fun.  We were all tired by that point.  After dinner I called it a night, and went home.  It was great to get out of London, and know that there is still life outside of school :) ttfn.