Today we went to Canterbury. Fr. Matt from my church is in the country for the Lambeth Conference and I wanted to get down there to see him. We've been wanting to see Caterbury Cathedral and the Castle (of course) so we decided to do that today as well. We got into the area and I e-mailed Matt. He e-mailed back that he was going to come out and he started walking out just as I got the e-mail and we just happened to be parked right where he was. He needed to go back to his hotel so we took him there. It was way out there and we needed to get there and back in an hour because he needed to blog. It was a crazy drive through these back roads and narrow windings, but we made it. I'm going to hopefully meet up with him again tomorrow for church at the Caterbury Cathedral so that should be cool.
We went to the Castle after dropping off Matt and found it to be pretty much just a husk. It has been in a state of disrepair since the 1500's. It was briefly used as a giant 
water tank and also a coal house, anyway, it was eventually bought by the city and is now at least able to be toured. We could see the Cathedral in the distance, but we thought we could find a better spot closer to it, but that turned out to be not the case.
water tank and also a coal house, anyway, it was eventually bought by the city and is now at least able to be toured. We could see the Cathedral in the distance, but we thought we could find a better spot closer to it, but that turned out to be not the case.We then drove around for an hour trying to find a parking place. Eventually we settled on onethat was probably the same distance as we were at the Castle, but we made it to the Cathedral. It is really big and has a bunch of crypts in it. Very nice. I took a lot of video and a lot of pictures. Even Makenna was calm throughout t
he whole time. It was nice that they allowed this, Westminster doesn't, of course they didn't charge me £7/person to get in either. I wish we had time to get the audio guide, but the shop was closing as we arrived. We wandered all over the place. They really don't have any restrictions on what you can see or where you can go. We say King Henry IV I think, it was amazing that there were crypts right there that you could touch that were from the 1400's. 600 years old!
he whole time. It was nice that they allowed this, Westminster doesn't, of course they didn't charge me £7/person to get in either. I wish we had time to get the audio guide, but the shop was closing as we arrived. We wandered all over the place. They really don't have any restrictions on what you can see or where you can go. We say King Henry IV I think, it was amazing that there were crypts right there that you could touch that were from the 1400's. 600 years old!
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