1605 – A Sandwich…in Sandwich? (Oh, and Canterbury)

There’s a phenomenon in photography that typically occurs with architecture when pictured using a wide angle lens. It’s called converging verticals. Let’s just say that the verticals of Canterbury Cathedral don’t slope anywhere near like what they do in the picture.

Anyhow, you’ll gather that we visited this august city and building today. The cathedral is magnificent especially when you think how old it is, with the foundations being laid in 597 and parts of the building dating back to 1070 and the event that took place on the 29th of December 1170, the assassination of Thomas Becket, the effect of reverberations of which I think can still be felt today. The history that present is just breathtaking.

From Canterbury we moved onto Sandwich, I have to say driving into a town parts of which still remain from several hundred years ago and was clearly not designed for cars let alone a 52 seater coach was a hair raising experience which only serves to increase my respect for the drivers of these beasts. I also must apologise for the change in font between this, the previous and subsequent paragraphs. I don’t know how I changed it and it doesn’t matter what I do I can’t get it back to the original font.

Anyway, we arrived safely at the coach park. We had an ice-cream and later after having had a wander around this important, old village, we had a beer. We did not however have a sandwich in sandwich, because I’d had a large breakfast, and neither of us were hungry.