I know I read some Canterbury Tales stories in high school, but of course I can't remember anything about them. Yesterday my roommates and I went to Canterbury where our school planned a tour through Canterbury Cathedral. Like some of the other Cathedrals we toured during previous weekends, it was overwhelming thinking about the 800+ years of history that has happened there.
We were able to spend a few hours in the actual town of Canterbury where we, of course, ate fish & chips!
After lunch, our group headed 40mins back towards London to Leeds Castle. I know it seems like I've seen a whole lot of castles, but each of them are so different! Leeds was actively used until the mid 1970's and was a lot different than Dover (from last weekend). Dover was definitely more of a castle used during wars and not really for royal family life. Leeds on the other hand, was set in the country-side, surrounded by water and full of endangered bird species! (I guess the royal family really loved birds?).
There was a pretty cool maze at Leeds Castle too! After navigating unsuccessfully, my friends and I split up into 2 teams and my team got so lost! Let's just say I have a bad sense of direction.
There aren't any fieldtrips next weekend because our "fall break" starts, which means my mom is coming! We have so many tourist-y things planned. I am so excited.
omg those fish & chips look so good!
ReplyDeletei've been meaning to ask you: what borough of london is your flat in? and how did you go about finding a flat/flatmates to live with?
My flat is sort of in two boroughs: camden & islington. (One end of our road is Camden, Camden Town, etc and another way all the signs say Islington).
ReplyDeleteMy school helped us out A LOT with finding flats. They gave us a packet with a list of landlords that they had worked with in the past and then we just called places and asked what sized flats they had available.
I was lucky too with roommates because the academic major I'm in only has 23 students/year so I've known my current roommates since freshman year of college!