A Canterbury Tale - Wandering Around England's Medieval City
Last year I took myself on an epic wander around parts of the UK to celebrate a milestone birthday (which milestone you ask? I'll just let you guess on that one!) and while planning my trip, decided that since I lived in the small town of Canterbury, Connecticut, it would only be right to visit the not-so-small Canterbury, England for which my Canterbury was named. After all, I was spending a few days in London and it was an easy train ride to Canterbury via Southeastern Railway so why not? After a lovely one hour ride from London's Victoria Station through the Kent countryside to Canterbury West Station, I disembarked the train and began the 1/2-mile walk to the Cathedral Gate Hotel which would be my lodging for the next 2 nights. My walk took me towards and through England's oldest still-standing city gate, the monumental 14th-century Westgate, and then down the pedestrian-only St. Peter's Street past the Black Griffin Pub which is the first pub past the...